STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 477-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2184

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2184 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Board of Education (BOE) to employ or retain attorneys independent of the Attorney General.

BOE, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of the Attorney General opposed this bill.

Your Committees have amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting the substantive provisions of H.B. No. 1895. As amended, this bill:

(1) Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution to provide for the election of BOE members from districts as provided by law;

(2) Provides for the establishment of 17 school districts each comprising three representative districts;

(3) Establishes a school district commission to draw the initial districts;

(4) Establishes school district advisory councils to assist the school district commission;

(5) Requires one BOE member to be elected from each school district;

(6) Provides for the redrawing of school districts upon reapportionment; and

(7) Takes effect on July 1, 2050.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2184, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2184, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Judiciary,

____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair		____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair