STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 855-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2716

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2716, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a Candidate Advisory Council to assist the Governor in identifying and recruiting qualified candidates for the University of Hawaii (UH) Board of Regents.

The UH Professional Assembly, UH Student Caucus, and League of Women Voters of Hawaii supported this bill.

Your Committee has inserted the contents of this bill into another vehicle. Accordingly, Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting provisions that:

(1) Establish the Higher Education Statutory Revision Interim Study Group (Study Group) to examine statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii;

(2) Require the Study Group, with the assistance of the Legislative Reference Bureau, to determine an improved organizational framework for these statutes and recommend statutes that may be consolidated, amended, or repealed; and

(3) Require the Study Group to report its findings to the Legislature before the 2005 Regular Session.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2716, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2716,

S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

		____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Chair