STAND. COM. REP. NO. 408

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1221

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1221 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to hire a program coordinator and a technical support staff member for the proposed international flight training center and degree program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Transportation; County of Hawaii; University of Hawaii at Hilo; University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii Space Grant Consortium; Hawaii Community College; Iron Workers Stabilization Fund; and twenty-four individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 156, S.D. 1, adopted during the Regular Session of 2012, the Legislature urged the creation of an exploratory committee to consider the establishment of an international flight training center and associated aeronautical training programs at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.

 

Your Committees further find that this measure will provide the needed funding to complete the necessary studies and planning for the programs' future implementation.

 

The University of Hawaii estimates that it will need $221,863 per fiscal year to hire a program coordinator and a technical support staff member, as well as for other personal services.  The estimated overhead costs are $128,137 per fiscal year.  It is the University's hope that these amounts will be a one-time cost for the program and that the necessary studies and planning can be completed in one year.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the specific dollar amount to be appropriated by this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1221, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1221, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair