STAND. COM. REP. NO.  525-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1801

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1801, H.D. 1, 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 more fairly compensate graduate assistants for their professional contributions to the University of Hawaii by reducing, by an equal percentage, the salaries of all executive and managerial positions at pay grade 12 or higher at the University of Hawaii for fiscal year 2016-2017 to the extent necessary to provide an additional $4,000,000 during the same fiscal year for the salaries of graduate assistant positions at the University of Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Student Organization and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii opposed the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by also requiring the University of Hawaii to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the method by which the transfer of the additional $4,000,000 for the salaries of graduate assistant positions was accomplished.

     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 H.B. No. 1801, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1801, H.D. 2.

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

____________________________

ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair