STAND. COM. REP. NO.  309

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 811

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 811 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 establish two full-time graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii Educational Policy Center at the University of Hawaii.

The Hawaii Educational Policy Center; University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Student Organization; and several concerned individuals testified in support of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2525, to promote further discussion.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $40,000 to establish two full-time graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii Educational Policy Center at the University of Hawaii.

     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. 811, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 811, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair