STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1506

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 1418

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1418, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help educational and professional opportunities for Filipinos in Hawaii by providing additional resources to the University of Hawaii Pamantasan Council.

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, University of Hawai‘i Pamantasan Council, Pamantasan 2019 Conference Committee in Hawai‘i Island, Filipina Advocacy Network, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount;

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2052, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

Should your Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committees note that the requested amount to fulfill the purposes of the appropriation was $390,000 for each year of the fiscal biennium.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1418, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1418, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair