STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2283

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3092

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3092 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for a program coordinator and technical support staff member to complete the necessary planning required for an international flight training center and associated aeronautical training programs at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Hawai‘i Community College, Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawai‘i, County of Hawai‘i Department of Research and Development, and eight individuals.

     Your Committee finds that pursuant to Act 272, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013 (Act 272), $100,000 was appropriated for fiscal year 2013-2014 for a program coordinator and technical support staff member for the potential establishment of an international flight training center and associated aeronautical training programs at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.

     The program coordinator and technical support staff member were tasked with determining the demand and financial viability of the proposed aeronautical programs.  In addition, they were tasked with conducting the necessary planning and studies, as well as completing the draft authorization to plan, for the Chancellors of the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College for the proposed aeronautical training programs.

     Your Committee further finds that the draft authorization to plan has been completed and is ready for submittal to the University of Hawaii System Council of Chief Academic Officers, as well as the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.

     This measure will provide continued support for the establishment of an international flight training center and associated aeronautical training programs at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 S.B. No. 3092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair