STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1133

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 325

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 325, S.D. 1, 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 provide funds for the University of Hawaii to pay student employee salaries at new or expanded worksites on each campus.

 

     The University of Hawaii supported the intent of the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the University of Hawaii to develop and implement the Graduation Pathway System on all campuses of the University of Hawaii system no later than the fall semester of 2016 and appropriating funds, including for new staff positions, for this purpose;

 

     (2)  Appropriating funds for staff, including a director, for the University of Hawaii Center on Aging;

 

     (3)  Directing each campus of the University of Hawaii, in estimating its quarterly budget requirements, to prepare an operations plan for the fiscal year for each of the programs that it is responsible for administering;

 

     (4)  Providing that at the end of each fiscal year, the moneys in the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund for each campus must lapse to the credit of Program Identification Number UH900 (University of Hawaii, system wide support);

 

     (5)  Requiring the President and Vice President for Budget and Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii to review the operations plan for each campus to:

 

          (A)  Determine if the operations plan meets certain criteria; and

 

          (B)  Approve the operations plan, or modify or withhold the planned expenditures, depending on whether the criteria are met;

 

     (6)  Establishing the Office of the Ombuds, to be attached administratively to the University of Hawaii system office and appropriating funds for this purpose;

 

     (7)  Appropriating funds for staff and materials for the University of Hawaii to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 at each of the University of Hawaii system campuses;

 

     (8)  Transferring the Office of Gender Equity from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to the University of Hawaii system office;

 

     (9)  Transferring various existing positions to the Office of Gender Equity at the University of Hawaii system office;

 

     (10) Converting various existing positions to Title IX Coordinator positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Hawaii at Hilo, and University of Hawaii community colleges;

 

     (11) Directing the Auditor to conduct audits of the University of Hawaii's management of faculty workload;

 

     (12) Appropriating funds to establish two graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii Educational Policy Center at the University of Hawaii;

 

     (13) Requiring the University of Hawaii to provide nonsupervisory employees in blue-collar positions and similarly situated officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining with the same educational benefits provided to faculty of the University of Hawaii and community college system;

 

     (14) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2525, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (15) 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. 325, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 325, S.D. 1, 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