STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1189-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 3118

S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3118, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase funding for research-related equipment and facilities at the University of Hawaii (UH) by:

(1) Reclassifying the UH Research and Training Revolving Fund as a special fund;

(2) Retaining all indirect overhead funds generated by UH research and training programs in the UH Training and Research Special Fund (Fund) for research-related equipment and facilities, instead of allocating portions to the Discoveries and Inventions and Housing Assistance Revolving Funds; and

(3) Authorizing expenditures from the Fund for repair and replacement of research-related equipment and facilities.

UH supported the intent of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3118, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

		____________________________ TOMMY WATERS, Chair