STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1418

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 248
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 248, H.D. 1, 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 bill is to clarify that the University
of Hawaii may continue to seek legal services from the Attorney
General.

     Additionally, this bill clarifies that although claims
against the university are not general obligations of the State,
the State may continue to appropriate state funds to settle those
claims.

     Your Committee finds that the university's autonomy does not
make the university persona nongrata to the State.  On the
contrary, your Committee finds that recent legislation granting
autonomy to the university was part of the Legislature's intent
to assist the university in becoming a great university.  Your
Committee finds that this assistance can also take the form of
continued legal services and financial subsidies.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 248, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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