Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 156, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to encourage the establishment of a college of pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo).

The Chancellor of UH-Hilo, Board of Pharmacy, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, HMSA, and an individual supported this measure.

Your Committee finds that a college of pharmacy would help to significantly reduce Hawaii's shortage of pharmacists. However, your Committee further notes that it may cost as much as $1.7 million in general funds to operate a fully-enrolled college of pharmacy, and has concerns regarding the availability of such funding.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 156, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 156, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.