STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 828

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 714

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 714 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Remove the Department of Education (DOE) as a principal department of the State;

(2) Repeal the State Educational Facilities Improvement Special Fund (Special Fund) and require transfer of the moneys in the Special Fund to the credit of the general fund; and

(3) Establish an educational restructuring and transition committee to review the structure of DOE and make recommendations to the Board of Education (BOE) and the Legislature on the implementation and transition of DOE to a political subdivision.

The Koolau News submitted testimony in support of this bill. BOE submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 714, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 714, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair