Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2787 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the Department of Education (DOE) Storeroom Revolving Fund.

The State Auditor and Hawaii State Teachers Standards Board submitted testimony in support of this bill. DOE submitted testimony in support of this bill with suggested amendments.

Your Committee finds that the DOE storeroom, which serves as a central repository of educational supplies, no longer adequately serves the needs of schools throughout the State. These supplies can be obtained much more efficiently and at reduced cost by individual schools.

However, Your Committee notes that DOE requires more time to liquidate the supplies currently in the storeroom, and immediately repealing the storeroom would not allow them to distribute the remaining supplies and prepare a new supply distribution system.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to December 31, 2002.

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. 2787, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2787, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.