STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2284

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2906

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2906 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 employees at new or expanded worksites on each campus.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System, Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and eight individuals.

     Your Committee finds that hiring students at universities benefits both the students and the university.  Hired students have the ability to earn income as they are learning from their jobs either on campus or off campus.  Many campus programs are highly dependent on entry-level, as well as experienced and specialized, flexible staff.  At the University of Hawaii, approximately four thousand students work an average of twelve hours per week while enrolled as full-time students.  These student employees depend on part-time work to help pay for tuition fees and educational and living expenses.  This measure will appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to pay student employees at new or expanded worksites on each campus.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an appropriation amount of $500,000.

     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. 2906, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2906, 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