Bill Text: HI SB606 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Appropriation; Student Employees ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 237, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1340). [SB606 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB606-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1033

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 606

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 606, S.D. 2, 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 assist student employees attending University of Hawaii campuses by appropriating an unspecified amount in general revenues to:

 

     (1)  Fund students employed at new or expanded worksites at each University of Hawaii campus; and

 

     (2)  Provide full-time support staff to assist the Vice Chancellor for Students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa with coordination, recruitment, training, and compliance with system-wide procedures and student employment regulations.

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii System and University of Hawaii at Manoa supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $5,200,000, for each year of fiscal biennium 2013-2015;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 606, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 606, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair