Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1648, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to provide tuition assistance to qualifying children of certain emergency personnel and Hawaii veterans who are killed in the line of duty, and to certain military personnel who are absent from college for more than thirty days in a semester due to their military activities.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by removing the language proposed by House Draft 1 of this measure, and inserting an amendment to section 304-4 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, which would allow the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to waive the nonresident tuition and fee differential for members in good standing of the Hawaii National Guard and the Hawaii-based federal reserve components of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, regardless of their actual state of residence.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1648, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1648, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.