STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1627-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 3120

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3120, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage Hawaii residents to pursue post-secondary school education. Specifically, this bill, among other things:

(1) Establishes a Workforce Development Scholarship Program (Workforce Program) within the University of Hawaii (UH) to provide scholarships for Hawaii residents enrolled at a community college campus of UH and who are eligible for need-based federal financial aid;

(2) Specifies that state funds for all scholarship programs be placed in a separate account within the Student Scholarship and Assistance Fund;

(3) Appropriates additional funds for the B Plus Scholarship Program; and

(4) Appropriates funds to establish the Workforce Program.

UH supported the intent of this bill.

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3120, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3120, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair