STAND. COM. REP. NO. 608

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 185
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 185, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to statutorily establish a
Hawaii State Student Council and to require the council to assume
the statutory duty presently held by the Student Conference
Committee to hold the annual conference of secondary school
students.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Student Council
exists but has never been formally established under statute.
Your Committee finds that statutory establishment of the council
will give the council permanency and stability in allowing
student participation in school-based decision making.

     Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive amendments
for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
185, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 185, S.D. 2.

 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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