STAND. COM. REP. NO. 241

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1447

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1447 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Public Charter School Commission for charter schools.

 

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which deletes the contents of this measure and inserts language to appropriate funds for operating expenses of charter schools and the State Public Charter School Commission.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the State Public Charter School Commission and Kamehameha Schools.

 

     Your Committee finds that the proposed S.D. 1 provides a legislative vehicle should funding become available for the purposes of this measure prior to the end of the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.

 

     Your Committee's intent in recommending the proposed S.D. 1 for passage is for the adjustments expressed to be incorporated into the General Appropriations Act of 2019 or other appropriate legislative vehicle or to be adopted separately.  As such, your Committee requests your Committee on Ways and Means to incorporate the adjustments expressed by the proposed S.D. 1 into the appropriate legislative vehicle or amend this measure to include any provisions necessary to effectuate its purpose and intent.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.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 S.B. No. 1447, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1447, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair