STAND. COM. REP. NO.  282-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1608

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1608 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the Graduation Pathway System for fiscal year 2016-2017.

 

     The University of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing the $550,000 appropriation with an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2525, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider an appropriation amount of $550,000.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1608, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1608, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair