STAND. COM. REP. NO.  295

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1533

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1533 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for additional positions to support a joint effort between the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa College of Education and Leeward Community College to recruit potential teachers from the high-need communities on the Leeward Coast and Ewa plain, and train them to become fully-qualified teachers who will remain in those communities.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  UH supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts for the six faculty         positions and educational equipment to a total of $4 to        encourage further discussion; and

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

     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. 1533, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1533, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair