STAND. COM. REP. NO. 889

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1028

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1028, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist students who are unable to attend regularly scheduled classes by appropriating $450,000 to operate the University of Hawaii (UH) School of Social Work's Distance Learning Program.

The UH School of Social Work, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and Hale Opio Kauai, Inc., supported this bill. The National Association of Social Workers supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to promote further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

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. 1028, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1028, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair