STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2334

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3093

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. 3093 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to establish staff positions within the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center and support the University of Hawaii at Hilo's memorandum of understanding with the Revealing Individual Strengths for Excellence (RISE) 21st Century After School Program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Revealing Individual Strengths for Excellence 21st Century After School Program, and five individuals.

     Your Committee finds that pursuant to S.C.R. No. 132, S.D. 1, Regular Session of 2013, the University of Hawaii at Hilo, through its ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center and Division of Academic Affairs, entered into a memorandum of understanding with the RISE 21st Century After School Program, a program that helps underprivileged children of Hawaiian ancestry with life skills, achieving academic success, and career planning.  This measure will provide funding and positions to support the University of Hawaii at Hilo's memorandum of understanding with RISE 21st Century After School Program.

     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. 3093 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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