Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1257, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to institute a candidate advisory council for the purpose of screening and nominating candidates for appointment by the Governor to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents.

The University of Hawaii offered comments on the measure.

This measure institutes a candidate advisory council for the purpose of screening and nominating candidates for appointment by the Governor to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Your Committee finds that this measure will provide enabling legislation that provides statutory authority with respect to the powers, duties, and responsibilities of this newly created candidate advisory council.

Your Committee has amended this measure by increasing the terms of the University of Hawaii Board of Regent members, excluding the student member, from four years to ten years.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1257, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1257, S.D. 2.