STAND. COM. REP. NO.  311

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1325

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1325 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide increased financial flexibility to the University of Hawaii (UH) by authorizing UH to retain up to five percent of general funds appropriated, with certain exceptions, to be carried over to the subsequent fiscal year.

 

     UH supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Including reporting requirements similar to those required of the Department of Education for the carryover of funds; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1325, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1325, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Chair