2021 legislative recap: UHʻs overall budget cut by 10% | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Kalbert Young, UH vice president for budget and finance and chief financial officer, shares his analysis of the Hawaiʻi State Legislature 2021 session. The 2021 Legislature adjourned on April 29, after passing more than 260 bills, which the governor will now consider for enactment. Some of these bills will impact the University of Hawaiʻi either directly or indirectly. This was the first year of the Legislature’s biennium (two-year cycle). Since lingering tax revenue impacts from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are still a major factor on the state budget, and federal stimulus aid has rece...