Bill Text: HI SB452 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Board of Regents; Candidate Advisory Council; Repeal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB452 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB452-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 579

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 452

       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 Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 452, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to reestablish the Governor's authority to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint the members of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Board of Regents) by repealing the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Candidate Advisory Council), effective upon ratification of an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution that repeals provisions related to the Candidate Advisory Council.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Policy Office of the Governor.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii Regents Candidate Advisory Council.

 

     Since the passage of Act 56, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, to implement the amendments to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution, your Committee finds that while the Candidate Advisory Council has nominated several outstanding appointees to the Board of Regents, a number of issues have arisen regarding the method of Regent selection that has hampered the work of the Candidate Advisory Council and led to questions regarding the final selection of appointees during the Senate confirmation process.  The latest example is the Senate's rejection of two of the Governor's nominees to the Board of Regents during the Regular Session of 2011.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the Governor will not be able to adequately select nominees to the Board of Regents unless the Governor has more control and involvement in the recruitment and selection process.  Your Committee believes that it is appropriate to reassess and seriously consider repealing the Candidate Advisory Council.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Board of Regents to elect one vice-chairperson, rather than up to two vice-chairpersons; and

 

     (2)  Amending the timing of election and term dates of the Board of Regents' chairperson and vice-chairperson.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 452, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 452, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair