STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1105_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 149
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
149, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X,
     SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE BOARD
     OF EDUCATION FROM AN ELECTED BOARD TO AN APPOINTED BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for clear
accountability in public education by changing the manner in
which the Board of Education (BOE) is selected.  Specifically,
this bill proposes an amendment to the State Constitution that
would have the members of the BOE be appointed by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Senate, rather than be elected
by the voters.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, the United
Public Workers, and the Hawaii Business Roundtable testified in
support of the bill.  The BOE, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, Common Cause Hawaii, and Information Services
commented on the bill.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
 
 
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149, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 149, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair