STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3435
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to recodify the statutes relating to the University of Hawaii and higher education.
Your Committee finds that this measure was introduced during the 2005 session as the product of the higher education statutory analysis interim study group, which was established under Act 224, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.
Your Committee further finds that this measure does not produce any substantive changes in the law but does update and clarify the relevant statutes through reorganization, consolidation, amendment, and repeal. Your Committee finds that the study group succeeded in suggesting an improved organizational framework of the statutes.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Incorporating the acts that were passed during the 2005 session, in particular, by including the amendments made to the current chapter on university projects, by placing the new section on the procurement institute after the current section on the law school, and by placing the new chapter on the nursing scholars program as a subpart in the part of the recodified chapter relating to administratively attached entities;
(2) Adding cross referencing language for both the university revenue-undertakings fund and the subpart on university projects, since they are now separated from each other in the recodified chapter;
(3) Changing the effective date of the measure from July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2006, and making corresponding changes elsewhere in part IV of the bill to related dates and events; and
(4) 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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