STAND. COM. REP. NO. 417

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 606

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 606 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 appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to pay student employee salaries at new or expanded worksites on each campus and for three full-time equivalent support staff for the Vice Chancellor for Students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the hiring of students at the various campuses within the University of Hawaii System is beneficial to the University and the students.  In addition, many students depend on part-time work while enrolled in school.

 

     While your Committee supports the creation of more jobs for students, it is concerned as to whether the University of Hawaii will be able to sustain the increase in student employment if the minimum wage is increased.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the specific number of full-time equivalent support staff for the Vice Chancellor for Students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to be funded by this measure; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 606, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair