STAND. COM. REP. NO.  935-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2113

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2113, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Resources Development to provide state tuition grants for qualified current employees of the State who are admitted to and enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree program or community college program of the University of Hawaii and commit to employment with the State for a certain number of years.

 

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments.

 

     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. 2113, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair