STAND. COM. REP. NO. 756

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1475
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1475 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK
     OPPORTUNITIES PILOT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to transfer administrative
control of the school-to-work opportunities pilot project from
the Hawaii school-to-work opportunities executive council to the
Department of Education, and to make the executive council an
advisory body to the Board of Education and the Department.

     In addition, this bill:

     (1)  Repeals the law requiring the members of the Hawaii
          school-to-work opportunities advisory council to be
          nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of
          the Senate, appointed by the Governor;

     (2)  Repeals the law giving the Hawaii school-to-work
          opportunities advisory council the power to appoint the
          executive director and staff of the school-to-work
          opportunities pilot project, and to adopt rules; and


 
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     (3)  Allows the Superintendent of Education to appoint the
          executive director of the school-to-work opportunities
          pilot project, and allows the Department of Education
          to employ the other staff of the pilot project.

     Your Committee finds that transferring administrative
control of the school-to-work opportunities pilot project to the
Department of Education will:

     (1)  Allow the Hawaii school-to-work opportunities advisory
          council to concentrate its efforts on reforming
          education, developing the State's workforce, and
          stimulating economic development; and

     (2)  Make the Board of Education and Superintendent of
          Education totally and completely accountable for both
          the successes and failures of the school-to-work
          opportunities pilot project.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its
effective date from July 1, 1999, to January 1, 2001.

     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 S.B. No.
1475, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1475, S.D. 1.

                                 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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