STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3929

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2206

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2206, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys for University of Hawaii athletics programs.

 

     More specifically, the measure:

 

     (1)  Appropriates $3,600,000 for athletics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, provided that the Board of Regents:

          (1)  Shall consider the review of coaching contracts greater than $200,000; and

          (2)  Be able to determine if there is cause for the termination of the athletic director and head coaches; and

 

     (2)  Appropriates $400,000 for athletics at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Hawaii at Hilo, and Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that the funding provided by this measure would provide needed financial support to the respective athletics programs of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and University of Hawaii at Hilo, which each represent Hawaii nationally and internationally, and help to offset higher costs that are unique to Hawaii and not faced by these schools' peer competitors.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2206, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2206, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair