STAND. COM. REP. NO.  102

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 190

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 190 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRIVATE FLIGHT SCHOOLS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable qualifying students of private flight schools to participate in federal student loan programs.

More specifically, this measure enables qualifying private flight schools to obtain from the Department of Education, the state authorization needed to participate in federal student loan programs established pursuant to Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.

Mauna Loa Helicopters and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of Education opposed this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 190, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 190, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Higher Education,

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair

____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair