Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to recodify the statutes relating to the University of Hawaii and higher education.

Specifically, this measure updates and clarifies those statutes through reorganization, consolidation, amendment, and repeal.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Interim President of the University of Hawaii and the Co-Chair of the All Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs of the University of Hawaii system. Both were members of the higher education statutory analysis interim study group. Testimony commenting on the measure was also received from the Environmental Center.

Your Committee finds that this bill is the product of the higher education statutory analysis interim study group, which was established under Act 224, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. The Act required the study group to suggest an improved organizational framework for statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii, recommending statutes for consolidation, amendment, or repeal. Your Committee finds that the organizational framework of the proposed recodification is evidently modeled after that of the lower education recodification.

Your Committee further finds that there is general agreement among interested persons within the University of Hawaii that the interim group's proposed legislation improves the organizational framework of statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii, and updates and clarifies statutory provisions while providing consistency and clarity for those provisions. Your Committee also finds that the faculty of the university finds that the recodification effort reflects both changes in the university and the faculty's trust in a brilliant future for the university.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style. Your Committee also added other conforming amendments.

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