STAND. COM. REP. NO.  437

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1230

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1230 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to strengthen public education in Hawaii by re-establishing and funding an interagency working group, based on Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, to create a comprehensive plan to transfer all personnel and functions of the Department of Accounting and General Services, related to neighbor island public schools, to the Department of Education.

 

     The Department of Education supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services testified in opposition.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Education and the House of Representatives Committee on Education as members of the working group;

 

     (2)  Adding as members of the working group the Director of Human Resources Development, Director of Human Services, Director of Finance, Attorney General, exclusive representatives of the bargaining units of affected employees, and any other persons the Superintendent of Education appoints; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1230, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair