STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1218

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1547

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 1, 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 (UH) to provide all student-athletes enrolled at UH with two additional meals per day.

The O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i and an individual testified in support of this measure. The University of Hawai‘i System provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021 for the UH Athletic Program; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair