STAND. COM. REP. NO. 782-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2498

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2498, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow adults and minor students to be eligible for the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus if they graduated from a Hawaii high school within a certain time frame and are enrolling in an undergraduate degree program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System; Department of Education; and Hawaiʻi P-20 Partnerships for Education.

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. 2498, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair