STAND. COM. REP. NO. 264

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 369

       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. 369 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt adoption of selected regulations by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents from chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and require adoption of selected regulations to be subject to chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the League of Women Voters.

 

     Your Committee finds that, under current law, the University of Hawaii must adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes for particular programs and operations, such as the operation and management of equipment and inventory, and the administration of named scholarships.  The University of Hawaii Board of Regents is also required, under current law, to comply with the requirements of chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to conduct open public meetings and provide opportunity for testimony and comment on matters listed on a meeting agenda prior to decision making by the Board of Regents.

 

     Your Committee also finds the complex and numerous requirements of the University set forth in chapters 91 and 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are often duplicative and pose a significant obstacle to the University's ability to efficiently and promptly respond and resolve issues for which the University is responsible.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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. 369, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 369, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair