STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1375
Honolulu, Hawaii
S.D. 1
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 179 entitled:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU TO CONDUCT A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF THE ADVISABILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A HAWAII STATE UNIVERSITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to request the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a follow-up study of the advisability and feasibility of establishing a Hawaii state university that incorporates the University of Hawaii at Hilo and is separate and distinct from the University of Hawaii.
Your Committee emphasizes that the requested study is intended to provide an update to the study conducted by the Legislative Reference Bureau entitled, "The Establishment of an Independent University of Hawaii at Hilo" (January 1986). An updated study is needed due to passage of time and dynamic developments that have occurred at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the Legislative Reference Bureau to address in its study:
(A) The likely fiscal and organizational impacts of the conversion from the current statewide system to a separate state university; and
(B) The benefits of the current statewide university system structure;
(2) Clarifying that the study should address possible, rather than recommended, changes in organization resulting from the establishment of a separate state university;
(3) Deleting "including any proposed legislation" from the Legislative Reference Bureau's reporting requirements;
(4) Adding a whereas clause that sets forth the significant changes and accomplishments that have occurred at the University of Hawaii at Hilo since the 1986 Legislative Reference Bureau study; and
(5) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 179, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 179, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,
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CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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