There’s a lot of concern among Senate Ways and Means Committee members that the University of Hawaii’s athletic program budget keeps coming up short year after year.

A possible solution to the problem comes in the form of Senate Bill 2991, a proposal to have the stadium authority pay UH 25 percent of all revenues that UH generates at Aloha Stadium. It’s not the first time a proposal like this has come up.

The Senate bill was introduced by Senate Education Chairwoman Jill Tokuda and Senate President Shan Tsutsui, and a companion bill in the House was introduced by Reps. Scott Nishimoto, Mark Nakashima and Mark Takai. That one passed its first committee hearing today.

Two related measures propose 1) studying the feasibility of placing Aloha Stadium under UH jurisdiction or 2) making the president of UH a voting member of the stadium authority.