Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1866 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to grant the University of Hawaii (UH) and the Department of Education (DOE) permanent autonomous authority for matters relating to the purchase of goods, services, payments, and accounting by repealing the June 30, 2006, sunset date established in Act 321, Session Laws of Hawaii 1986, as amended.

UH, DOE, and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Department of Accounting and General Services opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1866, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1866, H.D. 1.