STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3598

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2299

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to facilitate the process by which the University of Hawai‘i obtains approval to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a county agency, its officers, agents, and employees for university purposes and university functions on county property.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System.

Your Committees find that the University of Hawai‘i campuses frequently use county parks and other facilities for university purposes and functions, such as physical education classes, athletic events, and graduation events.  The current procedure for the University of Hawai‘i to obtain approval from the Governor to indemnify a county for using a county facility for university purposes is unnecessarily burdensome. Your Committees further find that, as a semi-autonomous agency, the University of Hawai‘i has its own risk management program that finances its liabilities through a combination of self-insurance and commercial insurance. This measure allows the University of Hawai‘i to no longer need to engage in the lengthy and unnecessary approval process to support day-to-day operational transactions when the University uses county property, under certain conditions.

Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2525, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair