STAND. COM. REP. NO.758-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 3018

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 3018, 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 create seven educational districts from which district boards of education shall be elected.

The Board of Education (BOE) and Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in opposition to this bill. The Hawaii Business Roundtable submitted comments on this bill.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its substance and inserting the contents of H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 2. As amended, this bill:

(1) Abolishes BOE;

(2) Creates 15 school districts that are to be established by a School District Apportionment Commission;

(3) Establishes one district school board for each district;

 

(4) Sets guidelines for the Superintendent of Education (Superintendent) to be a coordinator to the school districts, in addition to managing the Department of Education;

(5) Establishes district superintendents responsible for the educational needs of individual districts;

(6) Transfers BOE's responsibilities to the Superintendent;

(7) Creates a Joint Senate-House Task Force (Task Force) to:

(A) Review statutes that will require conforming amendments;

(B) Propose legislation governing the election of district school boards; and

(C) Analyze the effects of this bill and propose additional legislation or amendments to the bill;

and

(8) Repeals outdated statutes relating to libraries.

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 S.B. No. 3018, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3018, S.D. 1, 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