STAND. COM. REP. NO. 241

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 692

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 692 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for distance training in public health.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify that the appropriation is for the public health distance training program of the Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 692, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 692, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair