Opinion ID: 2512446
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Terms Of The Six Holdover Regents Expired On June 30, 2008 Pursuant To Act 56, Sections 1 And 5.

Text: As previously stated, Act 56 of the 2007 legislature implemented the 2006 amendment to the Hawai`i Constitution, article X, section 6, that modified the appointment process for University of Hawaii regents by requiring the governor to select regent candidates from pools of qualified candidates presented to the governor by the CAC. In implementing the modified appointment process, the legislature, in Act 56, effective May 1, 2007, made specific provisions regarding the ten existing regents and their terms, which, as previously stated, expired on June 30, 2007 as to five regents, June 30, 2008 as to two regents, and 2009 and 2011 as to three regents. Section 1 of Act 56 provided that the ten existing regents will serve their full terms and [a]s each term expires, the regent will be replaced by an appointed member screened and proposed by the [CAC]. Section 5 of Act 56 provided that the terms of the five regents whose terms expired on June 30, 2007 shall be extended until the earlier of June 30, 2008, or until such time as new members of the board of regents have been appointed pursuant to the appointment process established pursuant to this Act, at which time their terms shall expire. Regent de la Pena was appointed to a term expiring on June 30, 2008. Pursuant to Section 1 of Act 56, he served his full term and his term expired on June 30, 2008. Regents Bender, Dahilig, Hapai, Lagareta, and Tatibouet were appointed to terms expiring on June 30, 2007. Pursuant to Section 5 of Act 56, their terms were extended until June 30, 2008 or until they were replaced by regents appointed under the modified appointment process, which ever occurred earlier. They were not, by June 30, 2008, replaced by regents appointed under the modified appointment process and so their terms expired on June 30, 2008.