STAND. COM. REP. NO.  37-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1556

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1556 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 prohibit the University of Hawaii from adopting or maintaining a policy that precludes a person from working at the University in a non-executive or non-managerial position solely because that person is a legislator or other official elected to a non-statewide public office within the State.  This measure does not apply if the duties and schedule related to public office unreasonably conflict with the University position.

 

     The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly testified in support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii testified in opposition.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1556, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair