STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1136-20

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2020

RE: S.B. No. 2056

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2056, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require and appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to collaborate with the Department of Education; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and numerous other entities to further develop interactive web tools to provide access to job data and earnings calculators that will enable degree-seeking individuals to make better-informed decisions regarding their post-secondary education and career choices.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Education; Department of the Attorney General; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

Your Committees find that providing degree-seeking individuals with easily accessible job and earnings data will help these individuals make better-informed decisions and satisfy their personal and professional goals.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a preamble affirming the Legislature's finding that helping degree-seeking individuals in Hawaii to make better-informed decisions regarding their post-secondary education and career choices is a matter of statewide concern;

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2051; and

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

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. 2056, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2056, S.D. 2, 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