STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2508

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3189

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3189 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

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

(2) Repeal the Conference Center Revolving Fund for conference center programs conducted at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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

Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii hosts various events and conferences year-round at institutional facilities. Existing law establishes separate revolving funds for the community colleges and the University of Hawaii at Hilo to support conference center programs. Authorization of single revolving fund will allow all campuses to standardize fiscal management of conference center programs across all campuses and eliminate unnecessary duplication. To ensure streamlined operations that effectively utilize University of Hawaii resources, this measure centralizes fiscal processes relating to conference center programs, similar to the structure of many other University funds.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

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. 3189, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3189, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair