STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2850

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 91

S.D. 3

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 S.B. No. 91, S.D. 2, 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 increase transparency of the University of Hawaii by requiring detailed reporting about the use of special fund moneys.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Specifies that the annual report on the various special funds of the University of Hawaii shall contain information on the expenditures from each special fund for salaries, maintenance of buildings and grounds, utilities, general office expenses, and implementation of information technology policies, along with information on any transfers into and out of each of those special funds; and

(2) Beginning with the 2023 Regular Session, requires the University of Hawaii to submit a new annual report to the Legislature, twenty days prior to the convening of each session, on expenditures from the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund for salaries, maintenance of buildings and grounds, utilities, general office expenses, and implementation of information technology policies, along with information on any transfers into and out of the special fund.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the additional information required for public disclosure by this measure will help to increase the public's understanding of how certain government funds are expended and the public's confidence in governmental functions.

Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify that the Cancer Research Center's annual reporting requirement will take effect upon the approval of the measure, rather than beginning in 2023.

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. 91, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 91, S.D. 3.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair