STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2514

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3192

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. 3192 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make permanent the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program established within the University of Hawaii.

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

Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii has the statutory authority to sponsor and directly participate in the transformation of innovations created by university researchers into viable commercial enterprises. However, to remain competitive with other institutions across the United States while supporting the State's economy, the University of Hawaii requires a robust university-level research program to support commercial innovation. This measure continues critical research conducted by the University of Hawaii to support key economic drivers of the State and workforce development initiatives.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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. 3192, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3192, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair