Bill Text: HI SB380 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Higher Education; Learning Center; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB380 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB380-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 752

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 380

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 380, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide funds for a pilot project to stimulate economic growth in the Puna region of the island of Hawaii, by fostering increased agricultural and other production through higher education.

 

     More specifically, this measure appropriates an unspecified amount to the University of Hawaii for an outreach program, under the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, to perform a needs assessment for the higher education learning center pilot project in Puna, Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the University of Hawaii System College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure benefits the State because the outreach program will help to identify educational training needs and resources and contribute to economic revitalization efforts in the area.  The pilot project may also serve as a replicable model for higher learning centers for other rural areas of the State.

 

     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. 380, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair