Bill Text: HI SB624 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Tuition; Expenditures

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB624 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB624-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 717

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 624

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 624, S.D. 1, 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 prohibit the use of moneys in the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund for administrative salaries at the University of Hawaii.

 

     The University of Hawaii System submitted written comments on this measure.

 

Your Committee finds that tuition revenues constitute a considerable amount of the core operational funds expended for the daily administration of the University of Hawaii system, but notes that tuition funds are not expended for administrative salaries of critical employees who are responsible for the effective daily operation of the University system.  Your Committee further finds that limiting the expenses that may be paid using tuition revenues without addressing those costs that are reasonably necessary for the operation of the University would complicate the University's fiscal operations, without providing any substantial benefit.  However, your Committee believes that prohibiting the expenditure of tuition and fees special fund revenues for the salaries of highly paid executive and managerial positions would not compromise the efficient operation of the University or negatively impact crucial administrative staff.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that moneys deposited into the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund shall not be expended on executive and managerial positions with salaries of $150,000 or more;

 

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

 

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

 

     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. 624, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 624, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair