STAND. COM. REP. 2263

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2196

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2196 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNIVERSITY PROJECTS AND PURPOSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to grant the University of Hawaii Board of Regents increased flexibility to construct and maintain university projects and other university purposes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that this measure will permit the University of Hawaii to:

(1) Become more responsive in attending to capital projects benefiting the students, faculty, and staff of the University community; and

(2) Enhance operating efficiencies.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2196, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair