STAND. COM. REP. NO.  211

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1011

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1011 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to foster public comment by requiring the University of Hawaii (UH) Board of Regents to disclose proposed compensation or compensation changes for administrative positions in the UH system.

     The UH Professional Assembly testified in support of this bill.  UH opposed this measure.  The Office of Information Practices offered comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Specifying that the proposed compensation or change in         compensation is to be disclosed upon request;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2059, to                    encourage further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1011, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1011, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair