Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3125 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to assist the governor in determining criteria, and identifying and recruiting qualified candidates, for non-student membership on the board.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, University of Hawaii Student Caucus, Associated Students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.

Your Committee finds that a system of vetting prospective regents is an important means of ensuring good management of the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

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. 3125, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3125, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.