STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1435

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 317

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 317 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 for fiscal biennium 2019-2021 to the University of Hawaii to support student mentors and tutors at community colleges.

The University of Hawaii supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the amount of the appropriation; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2052,

to encourage further discussion.

Should your Committee on Finance choose to consider this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it appropriate $500,000 for each year of the fiscal biennium.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Lower & Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 317, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 317, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair