STAND. COM. REP. NO. 360-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2500

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education & Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2500 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CONFERENCE CENTER REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the University of Hawaii Conference Center Revolving Fund;

(2) Authorize the University of Hawaii to establish accounts under the Revolving Fund to facilitate the administration of the Revolving Fund for conference center programs among various campuses and operating units of the University of Hawaii System;

(3) Repeal the Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo; and

(4) Transfer remaining funds in the Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo to the University of Hawaii Conference Center Revolving Fund.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System.

Your Committee finds that the Conference Center Revolving Fund and Community College Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo currently support conference center programs conducted at only the University of Hawaii at Hilo and community colleges, respectively. The authorization of a single revolving fund to support conference center programs across all campuses within the University of Hawaii System would standardize fiscal management of these programs. This measure would establish one revolving fund for conference center programs and allow the University of Hawaii to establish accounts within the revolving fund to facilitate the administration of the revolving fund among its various campuses and operating units.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education & Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2500, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2500, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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AMY A. PERRUSO, Chair