STAND. COM. REP. NO. 818

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 898

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 898 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 repeal the June 30, 2005 sunset date of Act 321, Session Laws of Hawaii, 1986 (Act 321), relating to the University of Hawaii's authority over matters relating to its acquisition of goods and services.

In other words, this measure will make permanent the university's authority over such matters.

Your Committee finds that, unless the sunset date is repealed, the University of Hawaii's authority over its acquisition of goods and services will revert to the Department of Accounting and General Services on June 30, 2005. Your Committee finds that the original sunset date of Act 321 has been extended several times over the last two decades and that this string of extensions reflects the gravity of the matter, which is not conducive to hurried decisionmaking on making this law permanent.

Your Committee has amended this measure by extending the repeal date another year. Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 898, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 898, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair