Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2200 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the administrative rulemaking requirements for the Running Start Program.

The Department of Education submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Education and University of Hawaii need flexibility to establish mutually agreeable programs without compromising existing statutes and policies. Eliminating these rulemaking requirements will assist the department and university in their efforts to develop educational programs.

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. 2200 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.