STAND. COM. REP. NO.  794-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1070

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1070, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to complete annual training on regent fiduciary duties, Hawaii's Sunshine Law, and Hawaii's open records law, including procedures for the removal of a regent who fails to meet these requirements.

Two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii Board of Regents testified in opposition of this measure.  The Office of Information Practices provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1070, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1070, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair