STAND. COM. REP. NO. 607

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 563

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 563, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to reconstitute the form and processes of the Regents Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents for the University of Hawaii to improve the Governor's ability to appoint qualified individuals to serve as members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Establishes the candidate advisory council and qualifications for its membership and places it temporarily in the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes;

 

     (2)  Describes the duties of the council and procedures for selecting candidates to fill vacancies on the Board of Regents; and

 

     (3)  Requires the Governor and the Senate to consider certain issues and take specific actions when participating in the nomination and confirmation process for the Board of Regents.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Policy Office of the Governor.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawaii Regents Candidate Advisory Council.

 

Your Committee finds that this measure would improve the Governor's ability to appoint a diversified, complementary, and dynamic Board of Regents from among a list of qualified individuals.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     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. 563, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 563, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair