STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3350

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 Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1608, H.D. 1, 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 appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the Graduation Pathway System for fiscal year 2016-2017.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System.

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii's Graduation Pathway System helps guide students toward timely graduation.  Expanding the system to meet its next milestones will require additional technical work, including the programming of academic maps into the system.  Continuing to build and improve the system will enhance the University's capacity to track and advise students in their progress toward graduation.

     Your Committee notes that, as originally introduced, the measure contained an appropriation of $550,000 for the Graduation Pathway System for fiscal year 2016-2017.

     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 H.B. No. 1608, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair