STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3093

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1608

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1608, H.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 appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the Graduation Pathway System for fiscal year 2016-2017.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii, Soundtable Entertainment Inc., and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii's Graduation Pathway System helps guide students toward timely graduation and expands the University's capacity to track and advise students in their progress toward graduation.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2025, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 1608, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1608, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair