STAND. COM. REP. NO 443

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 325

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 325 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide funds for the University of Hawaii to pay student employee salaries at new or expanded worksites on each campus.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and nineteen individuals.

 

Your Committee finds that hiring students at universities benefits both the student and the university.  Hired students have the ability to earn income as they are learning from their jobs, and on-campus employment helps to promote access, retention, diversity, and progress toward graduation of the student employees.  Further, the Legislature has previously provided funding from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for the University of Hawaii to pay student employee salaries at new or expanded worksites on each campus through Act 237, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 325 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education and the Arts,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair