STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2421

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 278
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
recommitted S.B. No. 278, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to replace the five members
of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii who sit on
the Board of Directors for the Research Corporation of the
University of Hawaii with two administrators and two faculty
members.

     The measure is to take effect by staggering replacement of
the five Board of Regents members over two years.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Board of Regents of the University of Hawai'i, the University of
Hawai'i, and the Research Corporation of the University.

     Your Committee finds that currently five of the ten members
of the Board of Directors for the Research Corporation of the
University of Hawaii are members of the Board of Regents of the
university.  The remaining members are appointed by the governor.

     Your Committee agrees that this measure will strengthen the
relationship between the university and the Research Corporation
by placing people with operational responsibilities within the
university system, on the Research Corporation's Board of
Directors.  This is a positive step in consolidating managerial

 
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control of university-related affairs within the university
system and establishes a greater degree of autonomy in the
management of the university and its associated research
components.

     Your Committee, however, believes that two members from the
Board of Regents should be maintained.  Thus, the measure was
amended to adjust the composition of the Board of Directors from
ten to eleven members by providing for two members each from the
Board of Regents, administration, and faculty and by maintaining
the five members to be appointed by the governor.  The two-year
replacement period of the members of the Board of Regents was
deleted.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 278, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 278, S.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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