{"id":144962,"date":"2021-07-13T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=144962"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:42:30","slug":"2021-special-legislative-session-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/13\/2021-special-legislative-session-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on 2021 special legislative session"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Kalbert Young<\/strong>, University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> vice president for budget and finance and chief financial officer, shares his analysis of the 2021 legislative session to date.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Legislature held a special legislative session in early July to consider overriding and\/or amending 27 bills vetoed by Gov. David Ige. Three of those bills significantly impact the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The first is SB589<\/abbr> CD1<\/abbr>, which was ultimately amended and passed during the special session. As I discussed in my May legislative recap of the 2021 legislative session<\/a>, SB589<\/abbr> CD1<\/abbr> is complex because it contains several parts, unrelated to each other, that affect aspects of university operations.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> leadership continues to have reservations with the amended version (SB589<\/abbr> AD1<\/abbr>), especially regarding the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center and John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM<\/abbr>). With that said, we feel that collaborative efforts between UH<\/abbr> staff and elements of the Legislature have resulted in a bill that largely addressed the concerns of both sides. Here are the updated components of the bill:<\/p>\n