STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2287

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2552

       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. 2552 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUDGET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the University of Hawaii's program budget execution exemptions.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that laws concerning the budgetary process of state funds are laws of statewide concern.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding language to clarify that laws relating to the budgetary process involving state funds are laws of statewide concern; 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. 2552, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2552, 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