STAND. COM. REP. NO. 112

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

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




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

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to return the responsibility
of expenditure reporting for the Department of Education (DOE)
from the Auditor to the DOE, and to 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.

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the
DOE.  Verbal comments were submitted by the Auditor.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide for
timely and accurate reporting by the DOE.  Your Committee has
amended this measure to reinstate the requirement that the DOE
provide electronic access to computer-based information to the
Legislature and the Auditor.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 550, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 550,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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