STAND. COM. REP. NO.  320-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1637

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1637 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to hire six full-time equivalent staff attorneys to provide legal counsel to the University of Hawaii System statewide.

 

     The University of Hawaii supported this measure.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2525, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1637, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1637, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair