Bill Text: HI SB1387 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Board of Regents; Regents Candidate Advisory Council; Governor

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB1387 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1387-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 677

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1387

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1387, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the selection process for members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Governor to reject the list of candidates presented by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the Regents Candidate Advisory Council to provide a new list of candidates to the Governor within sixty days of the rejection.

 

In addition, this measure specifies that each member of the Regents Candidate Advisory Council shall serve for the duration of the term of the member's appointing authority, up to a maximum of four years per term.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Policy Office of the Governor.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii and the State are best served by a process that increases the Governor's

flexibility to appoint members of the Board of Regents on the basis of how each candidate's individual talents will complement the overall membership of the board.  This flexibility would be further enhanced by allowing the Governor to reject specific candidates presented by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council in lieu of rejecting the entire list of candidates.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Governor to reject specific candidates from the list of candidates submitted by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Regents Candidate Advisory Council to present the Governor with a new candidate for each rejection of a specific candidate within sixty days of each rejection; and

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1387, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1387, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair