STAND. COM. REP. NO. 920

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1345

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1345, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Board of Regents to grant a waiver on all tuition and mandatory fees for a resident student enrolled in a four-year college campus of the University of Hawaii System with an education program or that offers an education degree for the semester or term during which the student chooses to complete the student teaching requirement necessary to earn a degree in education.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System and one individual.

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. 1345, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair