SCR 138 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC STRATEGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

SCR 138 is a Senate Concurrent Resolution requesting the State Auditor to conduct a management and performance audit of the University of Hawaii's Office of the Vice President for Academic Strategy. The audit will specifically examine Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education (workforce pipelines from pre-K to post-secondary), alignment of academic programs with state job demands, and transfer agreements between four-year universities and community colleges. It requires the Auditor to assess resource allocation, provide improvement recommendations, and submit findings to the Legislature by early 2026. This resolution does not change policies but seeks to evaluate existing academic strategy operations for transparency and efficiency.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Apr 21, 2025

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SCR138_HD1 → SCR138_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a traditional legislative document structure to a structured data format with metadata headers, though the substantive policy content remains largely unchanged. The core request for an audit of the University of Hawaii's Office of the Vice President for Academic Strategy is preserved, with minor text corrections including changing 'Legislator' to 'Legislature' in one clause and standardizing hyphenation in 'pre-secondary' to 'pre-secondary'.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the audit request and its focus areas remain identical to the original version.

TECHNICAL

Text formatting changed from traditional legislative layout to structured data format with metadata headers including timestamps, document IDs, and system codes.

Minor text corrections including changing 'Legislator' to 'Legislature' in one clause and standardizing hyphenation in 'pre-secondary' to 'pre-secondary'.

Removed page numbers and document tracking codes from the original formatted text.

Floor votes

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 21, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 779).

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Amato, Belatti, Cochran, Garrett, Ichiyama, Perruso, Quinlan excused (7).

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2129), recommending adoption.

lower

Apr 16, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kitagawa.

lower

Apr 11, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia, Matayoshi excused (3).

lower

Apr 11, 2025

Committee

Reported from HED (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2045) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Apr 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Amato, Evslin, Woodson, Souza.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to HED, FIN, referral sheet 28

lower

Mar 31, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 418) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Mar 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Rhoads. Noes, 0 (none). Transmitted to House.

upper

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Waived referral to WAM.

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

upper

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

Reported from HRE (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1351), as amended (SD 1), with recommendation of referral to WAM.

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HRE were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kim, Kidani, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga, Fevella.

upper

Mar 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE has scheduled a public hearing on 03-20-25 3:01PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to HRE, WAM.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

4 primary · 1 co-sponsor