STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2845

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 304

S.D. 3

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 304, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the nursing and dental hygiene programs at the University of Hawaii.

Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for faculty, administrative, and staff positions, distance learning, salary adjustments, facility planning, a nursing consortium, and rural health.

Your Committee finds that this measure is needed to support the efforts of the University of Hawaii at increasing its educational capacity in the area of nursing and dental hygiene in order to produce a qualified workforce to meet Hawaii's health care needs in the future.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 304, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 304, S.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair