STAND. COM. REP. NO. 995-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2056

S.D. 1

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 Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 2056, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AUDITOR,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to designate the State Auditor as an authorized representative of the Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Health (DOH) for the purpose of accessing student and other records.

The State Auditor supported this bill. DOE, the Department of the Attorney General, DOH, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association opposed this bill.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying the scope of the State Auditor's authority to access student and other records; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Legislative Management that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2056, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2056, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Legislative Management,

 

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MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Chair

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair