STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2832

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2316

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2316 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION, TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to modify the appointment process for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.

Specifically, this measure proposes a constitutional amendment to repeal the requirement that the Governor appoint members of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii from a list of qualified candidates presented to the Governor by the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Student Caucus.

Your Committee finds that concerns have arisen regarding the selection of candidates to the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Your Committee believes that authorizing the Governor to directly appoint members, instead of selecting appointees from a list of candidates, will ensure a diversified board membership to appropriately oversee the University of Hawaii System.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2316 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair