Bill Text: HI SB1385 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Board of Regents; Sunshine Law; Open Records Law; Training

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB1385 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1385-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 766

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1385

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

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. 1385 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to implement recommendations of the Senate Special Committee on Accountability to require the members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to undergo annual training on the Board of Regents' policies and procedures, Sunshine Law, and laws relating to open records.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Office of Information Practices and the University of Hawaii Board of Regents.

 

     Your Committee finds that members of the Board of Regents would benefit from receiving training to better understand their own policies and procedures, the State's Sunshine Law, open records laws, and also the State's Code of Ethics.  In addition, your Committee believes that the Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons of the Board of Regents should not be elected by outgoing members, but by members who will be remaining on the Board during the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson's tenure.

 

     In light of these findings, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Board of Regents to receive annual training in the State Code of Ethics, chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Ensuring that the election of the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Regents occurs only after all current members have been appointed, and not by outgoing members;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that training for the Board of Regents relating to chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, applies only to part I of chapter 92;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (5)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     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. 1385, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1385, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair