STAND. COM. REP. 1484

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 748

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 748, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a Nursing Education Loan Program (Program) and Special Fund administered by the University of Hawaii (UH) that:

(1) Provides loans for students in eligible nursing programs; and

(2) Allows loans to be forgiven incrementally for recipients who work as nurses in Hawaii.

Additionally, this bill appropriates funds for the Program and nursing faculty at UH.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hawaii Nurses' Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. UH submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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 S.B. No. 748, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 748, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair