STAND. COM. REP. NO.  395

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1070

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1070 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents (Regents) are effectively prepared to carry out their duties by requiring them to complete mandatory annual training on Board of Regents policies and procedures and Hawaii's Sunshine and open records laws.  This measure also requires the Governor to immediately remove any Regent who fails to meet annual training requirements more than once during the Regent's term.

The Office of Information Practices and Hawaii Educational Policy Center provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the Regents are to be trained only on Hawaii's Sunshine Law, and not the entirety of chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (2)  Requiring the University General Counsel to conduct the training on Board of Regents policies and procedures;

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 1070, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1070, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair