STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2588

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3141
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 3141 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 provide increased autonomy to
the University of Hawaii.

     Specifically, this bill establishes a budget preparation and
submission process for the university that is separate from that
of the executive branch.  This bill also removes the university
from the allotment system administered by the Director of Finance
and the audit and accounting oversight of the Comptroller.
Furthermore, this bill authorizes the university to set up and
operate its own civil service and personnel management system.

     Your Committee finds that this measure gives the university
a status comparable to that of the Judiciary.  Your Committee
believes that the university's eventual complete autonomy from
the executive branch will serve as the political infrastructure
for the university's near future as a respectable world class
institution.

     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.
3141 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 
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                                 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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