STAND. COM. REP. NO. 55

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1386

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1386 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to elect up to two Vice Chairpersons.  This measure also requires the Board of Regents to elect any Chairperson or Vice Chairpersons at a meeting held before July 1.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii with more flexibility and the incoming Chairperson and Vice Chairpersons more time to prepare for the upcoming academic school year.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1386, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair