STAND. COM. REP. NO. 332

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 814

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 814 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Convert certain revolving funds of the University of Hawaii into special funds;

 

     (2)  Repeal certain funds of the University of Hawaii; and

 

     (3)  Transfer the remaining balances of specific repealed funds to the University of Hawaii Auxiliary Enterprises Special Fund.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide greater flexibility and increased efficiency in the use and management of certain funds.  In addition, the repeal and reclassification of the funds indentified in this measure are in accordance with the findings and recommendations of a December 2009 report of the Auditor of the State of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee notes concerns over the large number of special, revolving, and trust funds currently in existence and being proposed for creation.  As such, your Committee has requested that the University of Hawaii reexamine all funds for possible consolidation or repeal.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language to amend section 304A-2264, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the University of Hawaii's Conference Center Revolving Fund within the University of Hawaii at Manoa, instead of within the College of Continuing Education and Community Service at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and provide flexibility in the use of monies in that Fund;

 

     (2)  Specifying that all fund balances remaining unencumbered and unexpended as of June 30, 2011, in the University of Hawaii's Conference Center Revolving Fund shall be transferred to the University of Hawaii Auxiliary Enterprise Special Fund established under section 304A-2157, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 814, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 814, 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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JILL TOKUDA, Chair