STAND. COM. REP. NO. 260

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 160

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 160 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to address particular recommendations concerning non-general funds of the University of Hawaii as set forth in Auditor Report No. 14-18, dated December 2014.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Auditor and University of Hawaii System.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that timely review and consideration of the University of Hawaii's special funds facilitates the efficient and effective use of State funds, and that each non-general fund continues to serve the purpose for which it was created.  This measure reclassifies special funds that are essential to their respective program areas while repealing those found to be no longer necessary or not meeting the criteria for continuance under law.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 Higher Education and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 160, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 160, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair