STAND. COM. REP. NO. 626-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1588

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education & Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 1588, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LABOR EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Specify that the Labor Education Advisory Council shall be advisory to the President of the University of Hawaii on all activities and programs of the Center for Labor Education and Research; and

(2) Require written responses addressing the Council's advice and adoption of resolutions by the President and Chancellor of the University of Hawaii, West Oahu campus.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System and Labor Education Advisory Council.

Your Committee finds that the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu campus, provides labor education, research, and labor-related programs to workers, their organizations, students, and the general public. Expanding the advisory capacity of the Labor Education Advisory Council ensures that the Center for Labor Education and Research continues to meet the evolving needs of the labor community.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education & Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1588, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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AMY A. PERRUSO, Chair