STAND. COM. REP. NO.143
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 607
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 607 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Authorize the Department of Education (DOE) to license private trade, vocational, and technical schools;
(2) Establish a revolving fund into which moneys collected from the licensing of private trade, vocational, and technical schools are to be deposited;
(3) Delineate exceptions to licensure; and
(4) Establish a Tuition Recovery Fund to protect students when a private trade, vocational, or technical school ceases to provide educational services and to pay administrative expenses incurred in the administration of the licensing function.
The DOE submitted testimony in support of this bill.
Your Committee finds that this bill will allow the DOE to collect funds for licensing functions that do not receive financial or personnel support. This bill will allow the licensure responsibilities of the DOE to be adequately administered and self-sustaining.
Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
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. 607, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 607, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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