STAND. COM. REP. NO. 850

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1146

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1146 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the authority of the University of Hawaii system to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that failure to extend the University of Hawaii's authority to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system would require it to return to an older financial management system that is designed for more traditional state government entities, rather than university systems.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Adding provisions that amend the effective date and repeal and reenactment provisions of several acts that impact the sections of law being amended by this measure;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to June 29, 2015, and adding language to save the amendments made by this measure from the repeal and reenactment provisions of section 5 of Act 102, Session Laws of Hawaii of 2010; and

 

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, style, 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. 1146, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1146, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair