STAND. COM. REP. NO.  466

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1326

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1326 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help increase the University of Hawaii's (UH) accountability for meeting the educational needs of the State by requiring UH to periodically review state needs related to higher education outcomes and indicators and monitor and report biennially on its progress toward achieving the outcomes.

 

     The UH System supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring:

 

     (1)  The University of Hawaii Board of Regents (Board) to periodically review and recommend amendments to the priority guidelines for quality education under section 226-107, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  The Board to develop a functional plan, including strategic goals, outcomes, and performance indicators, to implement state policies for education;

 

     (3)  The functional plan to include the objectives required under the previously-defined benchmarks;

 

     (4)  The Board to apply the functional plan in the development of their budget request to the Legislature; and

 

     (5)  The University to submit a biennium report on the functional plan in the second year of each fiscal biennium.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1326, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1326, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Chair