Bill Text: HI SB453 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Constitutional Amendment; UH; Board of Regents; Candidate Advisory Council (ConAm)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB453 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB453-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 409

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 453

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 453 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to propose an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the requirement that the Governor make appointments to the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii from pools of qualified candidates presented to the Governor by the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (Candidate Advisory Council).

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor and University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Candidate Advisory Council and the Graduate Student Organization of the University of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that it has become clear 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.  This measure will allow voters to consider whether the Candidate Advisory Council should no longer be constitutionally mandated.

 

     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. 453 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair