STAND. COM. REP. NO. 648

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 325

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 325 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 $2,000,000 out of general revenues to the University of Hawaii to fund student employees at new or expanded worksites on each University of Hawaii campus.   

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii, University of Hawaii Office of Student Affairs, and fourteen individuals.

     Your Committee finds that on-campus employment benefits both students and universities.  Students gain critical workforce skills and are able to cover rising college costs while campuses benefit from students' performance of a myriad of critical university functions.  Your Committee believes that students who work on campus often perform better academically and have higher graduation rates than those who work off campus. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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 S.B. No. 325, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 325, S.D. 1.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair