Bill Text: HI SB2555 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Tuition and Fees Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2555 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2555-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2555

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 304A-2153, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is established the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund into which shall be deposited all revenue collected by the university for regular, summer, and continuing education credit tuition, tuition-related course and fee charges, and any other charges to students, except as provided by law.  Moneys deposited into the fund shall be expended to maintain or improve the university's programs and operations and shall not be:

     (1)  Used as a justification for reducing any budget request or allotment to the university unless the university requests such a reduction;

     (2)  Transferred unless otherwise authorized by the legislature; [and]

     (3)  Restricted by the governor or the director of finance without the prior approval of the legislature[.]; and

     (4)  Used by the university for any purposes related to university projects, university systems, or networks or any combination thereof, constructed or maintained by the board under subpart D of part VI.

     Any rule, policy, or action of any agency or individual in contravention of this subsection shall be void as against public policy."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2014.

 


 


 

Report Title:

University of Hawaii; Tuition and Fees Special Fund

 

Description:

Prohibits the University of Hawaii from using moneys in the tuition and fees special fund for purposes related to university projects, university systems, or networks or any combination thereof, constructed or maintained through revenue bonds.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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