STAND. COM. REP. NO.  185-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1492

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1492 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 help increase fiscal transparency at the University of Hawaii by repealing the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund and requiring all income from tuition and fees be deposited to the general fund.

 

     The University of Hawaii Board of Regents and University of Hawaii opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO and Department of Budget and Finance provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2525, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style.

 

     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. 1492, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1492, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair