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GOVERNOR SIGNS LEGISLATION TO HONOR HAWAI`I'S FIRST U.S. SENATORS, ESTABLISH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS

May 31 - At a ceremony to install the Chinese Chamber of Commerce board of directors, Governor Lingle signed a bill to establish scholarship programs in honor of two long-time politicians who were instrumental in Hawai`i's territorial and state government, and who served as the state's first two U.S. Senators when Hawai`i achieved statehood in 1959.

"It is an honor to enact legislation to establish scholarships that will carry on the legacies of Senators Fong and Long," Governor Lingle said.  "These men came from different backgrounds, but both worked in a bipartisan manner to serve the people of Hawai`i, and to represent America's newest state in our nation’s Capitol," she added.

Act 112 establishes the Senator Hiram L. Fong and Senator Oren E. Long scholarship programs to provide financial support for Hawai`i public school students enrolled in any campus of the University of Hawai`i (UH) system.

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