STAND. COM. REP. NO.  221-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1883

      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 Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1883 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a permanent full-time associate professor and permanent full-time assistant specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging.

 

     The University of Hawaii at Manoa Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, The University of Hawaii, AARP, the Alzheimer's Association-Aloha Chapter, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, ASN Consulting Services, the Hawaii Family Caregiver Coalition, Hawaii Pacific Gerontological Society, Kokua Council, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriated amount for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) associate professor position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging from $86,532 to an unspecified amount;

 

     (2)  Changing the appropriated amount for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) assistant specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging from $75,924 to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2525, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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. 1883, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1883, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair