STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3361

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2978

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2978, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii to prepare an annual incentive and performance report and plan for the Legislature.

 

     This measure also appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii to hire an independent higher education finance expert as a consultant to assist in developing the incentive and performance report and plan.

 

     Your Committee received comments on the measure from the University of Hawaii system and the University of Hawaii - Hilo.

 

     Your Committee finds that fulfillment of the University's strategic plan and related state goals requires adequate and equitable funding of the various campuses of the University of Hawaii system over the long term.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Eliminating the requirement that the incentive and performance report and plan contain descriptions of proposals to be carried out at the program, department, campus, or system level;

 

     (2)  Requiring the University of Hawaii to establish a task force to assist the University of Hawaii in developing a funding formula for the distribution of fiscal resources to the various University of Hawaii campuses;

 

     (3)  Redirecting the role of the consultant from assisting with development of the incentive and performance report and plan to assisting the funding formula task force;

 

     (4)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2080 to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2978, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2978, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair