Bill Text: HI SB623 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: National Guard; Tuition Assistance

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB623 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB623-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1061

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 623

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 623, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TUITION ASSISTANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to increase access to higher education for Hawaii National Guard (HNG) members by:

 

     (1)  Allowing all commissioned HNG officers and HNG members working toward a graduate degree to be awarded tuition assistance;

 

     (2)  Specifying that undergraduate students have priority when tuition assistance is awarded; and

 

     (3)  Appropriating general revenue funds for tuition assistance awards given to HNG members.

 

     The Department of Defense supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to consider the funding issues surrounding this bill in light of current fiscal difficulties.

 

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing the appropriation;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date as to the remaining section; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 623, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 623, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair