STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2331

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3106

       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. 3106 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for various improvements to University of Hawaii facilities.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Engineering, KAI Hawaii, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Student Recreation Services, The Limtiaco Consulting Group, Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will address the need for repair and maintenance and other improvements to University of Hawaii facilities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the language authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriation of funds for Item A, the Magoon Research Facility, by specifying that the purpose is for the plans and design for the construction of the Manoa Learning Exchange at the Magoon Research Facility;

     (2)  Inserting the following appropriation amounts for the construction of the Manoa Learning Exchange at the Magoon Research Facility:

          (A)  $1,100,000 for plans; and

          (B)  $1,500,000 for design; and

     (3)  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 Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3106, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3106, 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