STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3201

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2492
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2492, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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 carry over, from one fiscal biennium to the first
year of the next fiscal biennium, up to five per cent of any
appropriation for the comprehensive school support services
program (EDN 150), upon the allocation or distribution of the
appropriation to the schools.

     In addition, this bill conditions the Department of
Education's carryover of up to five per cent of any appropriation
for the school-based budgeting program (EDN 100), from one fiscal
biennium to the first year of the next fiscal biennium, pursuant
to section 37-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, upon the allocation
or distribution of the appropriation to the schools.

     Your Committee finds that the creation of a separate program
for the provision of a free appropriate public education for
students with disabilities was needed to facilitate the tracking
and reporting of expenditures on behalf of students requiring
special education services and educational accommodations.  By
permitting the Department of Education to carryover

 
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appropriations for the comprehensive school support services
program, your Committee believes that the schools will make
better programming, planning, and budgeting decisions on behalf
of students requiring special education services and educational
accommodations.

     By conditioning the Department of Education's carryover of
an appropriation upon the allocation or distribution of the
appropriation to the schools, your Committee believes that more
moneys for the school-based budgeting program and the
comprehensive school support services program will reach the
schools in a timely manner.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2492, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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