STAND. COM. REP. NO. 932-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1779

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1779, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a three-year summer tuition pilot program to offset the costs of aligning resident tuition rates for the summer semester with resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at University of Hawaii community colleges.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Kapiʻolani Community College-Student Congress; University of Hawaiʻi Student Caucus; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and University of Hawaiʻi System.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

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. 1779, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1779, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair