STAND. COM. REP. NO. 229-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2492
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2492 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide greater flexibility
to the Department of Education (DOE) in planning and expending
funds by allowing the DOE to:

     (1)  Retain and carryover up to five percent of the         
          appropriations for the Comprehensive School Support
          Services Program (CSSSP); and

     (2)  Transfer funds from CSSSP School-based Budgeting       
          Program to CSSSP.

     The Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association testified in support of this bill.

     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.
2492 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.


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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair