STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3387

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1654

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1654, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the expenditure of legislative appropriations to the University of Hawaii for repair and maintenance of its campus facilities.

     Specifically, this measure establishes the campus facility board to:

(1)  Manage the legislative appropriations for repair and maintenance of the University of Hawaii campuses; and

(2)  Report expenditures of repair and maintenance appropriations to the Legislature along with remaining projects requiring repair and maintenance funding.  

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

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii system has a backlog of deferred repair and maintenance exceeding $480,000,000.  Establishment of a campus facility board to evaluate and identify amounts appropriated by the Legislature for repair and maintenance and to determine how to allocate those appropriations will help the University of Hawaii effectively address the backlog of necessary repairs on its campuses. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the chairperson of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Standing Committee on Budget and Finance and the chairperson of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Standing Committee on Planning and Facilities shall be members of the campus facility board;

     (2)  Specifying that the chairperson of the campus facility board shall be selected by and from among its members; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date of the measure to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     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. 1654, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1654, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair