STAND. COM. REP. NO. 394-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2265
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2265 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to change district boundaries for the Board of Education (BOE).

     For purposes of discussion and public hearing, your
Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version of the bill.  The
proposed H.D. 1 version:

     (1)  Proposes an amendment to Article X, Section 2, of the
          State Constitution to reduce the composition of the BOE
          to nine members:

          (A)  Six of whom are elected by qualified voters, with
               one elected member residing in each departmental
               school district of the second school board
               district; and

          (B)  Three of whom are nominated and, by and with the
               consent of the Senate, appointed by the Governor;

          and

     (2)  Applies to persons elected or appointed to the BOE at
          the time of the special election held in conjunction

 
 
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          with the first general election following the
          ratification of the proposed amendment.

     BOE opposed the proposed draft.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by incorporating the amendments made in the proposed H.D.
1.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2265, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2265, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education,



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair