STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1301

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 550
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No.
550, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Return the responsibility of expenditure reporting for
          the Department of Education (DOE) from the State
          Auditor (Auditor) to the DOE; and

     (2)  Require reports containing specific major functions and
          sub-functions which are at least equal to, if not
          better than, those provided through In$ite software.

     The Auditor testified in support of the bill.  The
Department of Education testified that while it agreed that the
Auditor should not be reporting DOE's expenditures to the
Legislature and Governor, it also believes that DOE's current
information system provides information sufficient to meet its
needs and those of the general public.

     Your Committee finds that the reporting of another
department's expenditures should not be a responsibility of the
Auditor.  DOE should be the entity responsible for reporting
DOE's expenditures.  Your Committee also finds that computer
software such as In$ite can provide extensive information about a
school system without great costs.  

 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments.

     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.
550, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 550, S.D.
2, 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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                                   KEN ITO, Chair