STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2398

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 493

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 493, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to fund a permanent director and faculty specialist position within the University's Center on Aging.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System, AARP Hawaii, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Alzheimer's Association - Aloha Chapter, Hawaii Family Caregiver Coalition, Hawaii Pacific Gerontological Society, Project Dana, and five individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that the University of Hawaii's Center on Aging strives to improve the quality of life of older adults in Hawaii and has the potential to be recognized locally and nationally for its research and education endeavors.  Your Committees further find that the needs of the Center on Aging have changed and the current priority is to add two faculty positions, an associate/full professor position and an assistant/associate specialist position.  Your Committees find that an associate/full professor position would enhance the Center on Aging's capacity to develop and teach innovative gerontological education programs, and that an assistant/associate specialist position would allow the center to develop and implement continuing education and training programs in gerontology.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Updating its purpose section;

 

     (2)  Deleting the appropriations for one full-time equivalent director and one full-time equivalent faculty specialist positions within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging;

 

     (3)  Inserting an appropriation of $86,532 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund one full-time equivalent associate/full professor position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging;

 

     (4)  Inserting an appropriation of $75,924 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund one full-time equivalent assistant/associate specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging;

 

     (5)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2016; and

 

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     If this measure is considered for passage by your Committee on Ways and Means, it is recommended that the appropriation for the assistant/associate specialist position be changed to $88,596 to meet the needs of the Center on Aging.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 493, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 493, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Human Services,

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair