STAND. COM. REP. 2777

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3013

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3013, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to subject any funds that are transferred from the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund to the University of Hawaii Foundation to audit by the State Auditor.

The measure requires that the same privacy rights of donors regarding records disclosures that apply to the University of Hawaii Foundation also apply to the State Auditor. Furthermore this bill specifies the items that the University of Hawaii must include in its report to the Legislature on the funds transferred to the University of Hawaii Foundation.

The University of Hawaii Foundation has maintained that the present law exempts the University of Hawaii Foundation from providing information and documents requested by the State Auditor when reviewing contracts between the University of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Foundation. Your Committee finds that the audits contemplated under this measure are no different from the audits that the State Auditor performs in other situations in which private vendors receive funds from the State and will allow the Auditor to determine whether expenditures of state moneys from the tuition and fees special fund are proper.

Your Committee has amended the measure by clarifying that the report must identify any fund of the University of Hawaii to which moneys from the tuition and fees special fund are transferred by the University of Hawaii Foundation. Your Committee has also amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 3013, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3013, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair