STAND. COM. REP. NO. 185________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1087
                                     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 H.B. No.
1087 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of
Education to collect and expend tuition and other fees charged
for out-of-school time instructional programs.

     Specifically, this bill expands the scope of the special
summer school and intersession fund (section 302A-1310, Hawaii
Revised Statutes) to allow the Department of Education to collect
and expend tuition and other fees charged for after-school
instructional programs and other educational programs that are
held outside of regular school days or hours.  Currently, the
Department of Education is limited to collecting and expending
tuition and other fees charged only for summer school and
intersession.

     In addition, this bill exempts the out-of-school time
instructional program fund from having to pay its prorated share
of central service and administrative expenses in relation to the
fund.


 
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     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that this bill will provide greater
flexibility for individual schools to design and offer a variety
of programs responsive to their students' needs, and will ensure
the adequacy of resources for doing so.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Amending section 13 of Act 216, Session Laws of Hawaii
          1997, and section 9 of Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii
          1998, to prevent the amendments being made to sections
          36-27 and 36-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by this bill
          from being repealed upon the repeal and reenactment of
          these sections by operation of law on July 1, 2000, and
          July 31, 2003; and

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of
          clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No.
1087, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1087, 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

 
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