STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2332
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2326
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2326 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Board of Regents) from meeting in executive session for the purposes of reviewing the performance of or discussing the finalists to be hired for the University of Hawaii System President or campus Chancellors.
Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System.
Your Committee finds that this measure seeks to ensure openness and accountability in reviewing the performance of or discussing the finalists to be hired for the University of Hawaii System President or campus Chancellors. However, your Committee recognizes the potential chilling effect of such open discussions regarding finalists to be hired as the University of Hawaii System President or a campus Chancellor on potential candidates for those positions.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by removing language prohibiting the Board of Regents from discussing in executive session the finalists to be hired as the University of Hawaii System President or a campus Chancellor.
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. 2326, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2326, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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