STAND. COM. REP. NO. 411

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1387

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1387 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to give the Governor the authority to reject the list of nominees to the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Board of Regents) presented by the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Candidate Advisory Council) and require the Candidate Advisory Council to provide another list of nominees to the Governor within sixty days.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of the Governor, Candidate Advisory Council, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that allowing the Governor to reject the list of nominees and requiring the Candidate Advisory Council to present the Governor with another list within sixty days will increase the Governor's ability to appoint highly qualified individuals to serve as Regents and effectively lead the University of Hawaii System.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding language to provide that each member shall serve for the duration of the term of the member's appointing authority, up to a maximum of four years per term; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 1387, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1387, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair