STAND. COM. REP. NO. 724-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1731

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1731, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make higher education in Hawaii more accessible by:

(1) Expanding the Hawaii Promise Program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified undergraduate students enrolled at a four-year campus of the University of Hawaii; and

(2) Appropriate funds to establish and implement the expanded program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, University of Hawai‘i System, Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii, University of Hawai‘i Alumni Association, and Kamehameha Schools. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

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. 1731, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair