STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2632

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2906

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2906, S.D. 1, 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 make an appropriation for the University of Hawaii to pay student employee salaries at new or expanded worksites of each university campus.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii System and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that hiring student workers at universities benefits both the students and the university by allowing students to earn an income while they learn.  This measure will increase opportunities for student employment by providing additional funds for student employee salaries at new or expanded university worksites.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2906, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2906, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair