STAND. COM. REP. NO. 242-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2299

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2299 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INDEMNIFICATION OF COUNTY AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the University of Hawaii (UH) Board of Regents, or its designee, to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a county agency, its officers, agents, and employees, when UH uses county property for a university purpose or a university function, provided certain conditions are met.

UH testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Judiciary, should it hear this measure, to consider the issue of whether UH has the legal authority to indemnify county agencies on behalf of the State without the approval of the executive branch, especially because UH is an autonomous entity.

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. 2299, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair