STAND. COM. REP. NO.  35-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1801

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1801 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to reduce executive and managerial salaries at the University of Hawaii for fiscal year 2016-2017 to the extent necessary to provide $4,000,000 in the same fiscal year for graduate assistant salaries.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Student Organization and four individuals testified in support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii testified in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1801, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1801, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair