Bill Text: HI HB1380 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Scholarship; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HRE, WAM. [HB1380 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1380-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  869

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1380

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1380, H.D. 1, 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 help increase access for Hawaii residents who are students to educational and civic opportunities by appropriating $200,000 in general revenues for each fiscal year of fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for the University of Hawaii to implement a scholarship program and other programs, with specified requirements, in partnership with the Washington Center

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making unspecified the appropriation amount;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 H.B. No. 1380, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1380, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair