STAND. COM. REP. NO. 61

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide consistency and clarity for statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii (UH), by recodifying, reorganizing, and updating the statutes through the processes of consolidation, amendment, and repeal.

UH and UH Student Caucus testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style, including:

(1) Ensuring the consistency of various entities of UH, including the "school of medicine of the University of Hawaii", "University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund", and "University of Hawaii, West Oahu campus";

(2) Changing the term, "physical handicap" to "physical disability" in section –101;

(3) Changing the phrase, "attorney general and the department of the attorney general," to "department of the attorney general" in section –205, since the attorney general is included in the department;

(4) Deleting from section –231 the unnecessary sentence, "A revolving fund to support the college shall be established under section -400."; and

(5) Changing the reference to section 39-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), in section –446 (relating to fiscal agents), to the proper statute, section 39-13, HRS.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair