STAND. COM. REP. NO.  328-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1530

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 1530, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii at Manoa to provide its nonsupervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (1) or one of their family members with tuition waivers comparable to the tuition waivers provided to faculty and their family members.

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; United Public Workers AFSCME, Local 646, and AFL-CIO; and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii System and Office of Collective Bargaining opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the University of Hawaii at Manoa to also provide its supervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (2) or one of their family members with tuition waivers comparable to the tuition waivers provided to faculty and their family members.

 

     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. 1530, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1530, H.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair