REPORT TITLE:
Education (short form)


DESCRIPTION:
Effectuates purpose of title (short form).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature acknowledges that a concerted
 
 2 effort must be made to implement the recommendations of the
 
 3 legislative auditor contained in the "Assessment of the State's
 
 4 Efforts Related to the Felix Consent Decree," Report No. 98-20.
 
 5 Specifically, the legislature finds that the State must pursue
 
 6 clarification of the working definition for the Felix class and
 
 7 the maintenance of effort requirement.  The State must also
 
 8 implement means to enable it to report all funding for Felix
 
 9 services with the same definitions of budget and expenditure
 
10 terms between departments from one year to the next.
 
11      The purpose of this Act is to effectuate the title of this
 
12 Act.
 
13      SECTION 2.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended to
 
14 conform to the purpose of this Act.
 
15      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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17                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________