STAND. COM. REP. NO. 667

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1299
                                        S.D. 2




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 S.B.
No. 1299, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROGRAM EXECUTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the requirement that
the University of Hawaii issue quarterly and annual reports to
the Legislature and Governor concerning transfers of positions
and appropriated funds.

     Your Committee finds that the requirement is inconsistent
with recent legislative policy to grant the university increased
fiscal and managerial autonomy and flexibility.  Your Committee
further finds that this reporting requirement is especially
onerous because no other executive department is held to such a
requirement.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to make the
underlying text of the underlying statutes consistent with the
printed version of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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.
1299, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
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Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1299, S.D.
2.

                                 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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