Bill Text: HI SB1388 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii; Board of Directors; Procurement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 288, 7/9/2013, (Gov. Msg. No. 1394). [SB1388 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1388-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1087

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1388

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1388, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the administration of and procedures at the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Reducing the number of members of the Board of Directors from ten to eight and the number of members of the Board of Directors who are members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents from five to two;

 

     (2)  Specifying that of the members of the Board of Directors appointed by the Governor, one must be a University of Hawaii research faculty member, one must be from the business sector, one must be a representative of a non-University of Hawaii research organization, and two must be from the general public;

 

     (3)  Including the Vice President for Research of the University of Hawaii System as a nonvoting ex officio member of the Board of Directors;

 

     (4)  Repealing the Research Corporation's exemption from the Procurement Code with respect to construction contracts where an unspecified amount or more of state funds is to be used;

 

     (5)  Repealing the President of the University of Hawaii's role as the President of the Research Corporation; and

 

     (6)  Limiting the salary of the Research Corporation's Executive Director to no more than two times the salary of the highest paid head of an Executive Branch department.

 

     The Policy Office of the Governor supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii opposed this measure.  The State Procurement Office, Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, Subcontractors Association of Hawaii, and a concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that two members of the Research Corporation's Board of Directors be members from the general public;

 

     (2)  Reducing the number of members of the Research Corporation's Board of Directors appointed by the Governor to three from five;

 

     (3)  Requiring that one member of the Research Corporation's Board of Directors be appointed by the President of the Senate and one be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

 

     (4)  Modifying the procurement exemption for certain, specified construction contracts;

 

     (5)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

 

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1388, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1388, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair