STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1231

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 826

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 826, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUNA DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a distance learning center in the Puna district within Hawaii Community College to provide greater access to secondary education in the Puna district.

The University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawaii Community College System, Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the University of Hawaii to submit a report to the Legislature on the distance learning center in the Puna district within Hawaii Community College, including the status, budget needs, challenges, and any proposed legislation, no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018.

     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. 826, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 826, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair