STAND. COM. REP. NO. 350-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1676

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 Higher Education & Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 1676 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is the appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to fulfill the requirements of Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii and Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board.

Your Committee finds that there continues to be a need for teachers, counselors, and administrators in the State of Hawaii. Your Committee further finds that Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022 (Act 141), required the University of Hawaii to establish K-12 expanded teaching cohort programs in each county for students who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in education. However, no funding for this mandate was provided. Your Committee believes that this measure would help the University of Hawaii fully implement the mandate of Act 141.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education & Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1676, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education & Technology,

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AMY A. PERRUSO, Chair