STAND. COM. REP. NO.324
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1346
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1346 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to authorize the University of Hawaii to carry-over unexpended general fund appropriations from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii.
Your Committee finds that over the last decade, the Legislature has approved measures providing increased financial flexibility to the university system, beginning with the authority to raise and expend tuition fees and more recently through a constitutional amendment granting the Board of Regents exclusive authority over the internal operations of the university system. Your Committee further finds that based upon this enhanced authority, the university should be provided some flexibility in the management of its general funds within a fiscal biennium.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Allowing the university to carry-over five percent of its general fund appropriation between fiscal years;
(2) Requiring the university to submit its report to the Legislature at the same time it reports to the Director of Finance; and
(3) Making technical, non-substantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1346, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1346, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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