STAND. COM. REP. NO. 157

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 547

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 547 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to the Board of Regents.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language that requires the University of Hawaii's Board of Regents to approve by majority vote any designee selected to serve or participate for the Board of Regents' Chairperson as a voting or nonvoting member of any legislatively established board, commission, working group, or task force.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 547, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Higher Education, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 547, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair