STAND. COM. REP. NO. 911

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1040

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii to create a campus master plan to guide the needs and development of each University of Hawaii campus.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii System.

 

     You Committee finds that the long range development plan of the University of Hawaii has not been updated since 2007.  Your Committee further finds that establishing a plan with five- and ten-year timelines that addresses growth, forges strategic partnerships, improves learning and research environments, and optimizes the use of existing facilities, among other things, will help to focus the development of the University of Hawaii System.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Requiring the University of Hawaii System to submit a report to the Legislature, prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018, on the status of creating the campus master plan;

 

(2)  Amending the deadline for the University of Hawaii System to submit the campus master plan from sixty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018 to sixty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2019; and

 

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity 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. 1040, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1040, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair