STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1249

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1040

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 2, 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 require the University of Hawaii system to develop a campus master plan that includes academic and facilities plans and five- and ten-year timelines for each University of Hawaii campus.

 

     The University of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including the requirement that the campus master plan be budget neutral or done in a fiscally responsible manner in the list of goals the campus master plan should strive to achieve.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair