STAND. COM. REP. NO 327

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 987

 

 

 

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. 987 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that a post-secondary educational institution may request an administrative hearing following receipt of notification of denial or of intent to suspend or terminate any authorization.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that existing law permits a post-secondary educational institution to request an administrative hearing pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, if that institution is placed on probation.  However, existing law does not set forth the administrative remedies available to an institution when it receives notice of denial, intent to suspend, or terminate any authorization.  Your Committee further finds that this measure would clarify that in these instances, the institution may request an administrative hearing for review as well.

 

     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. 987 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair