STAND. COM. REP. 2558

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2716

S.D. 1

 

 

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. 2716 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Council of Private Schools to license the preschools of private elementary schools already licensed as elementary schools by the Hawaii Council of Private Schools.

Your Committee has amended the measure by removing its contents and replacing them with those of S.B. No. 3125, which was already subject to public hearing and decision making on February 13, 2004. A proposed S.D. 1 for S.B. No. 2716 reflecting these amendments was also made available for public review. The proposed S.D. 1 provided for the establishment of a candidate advisory council for the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to assist the Governor in determining criteria, and identifying and recruiting candidates for, membership on the Board.

Your Committee has amended the proposed S.D. 1 by:

(1) Reducing the number of appointees made by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives from four each to three each;

(2) Increasing the number of appointees made by the Governor from four to six;

(3) Adding language regarding the qualifications of potential appointees to the advisory council;

(4) Deleting all provisions relating to the political party affiliation of advisory council members;

(5) Limiting appointees to no more than two consecutive six-year terms, excluding the initial term from this limitation;

(6) Mandating the advisory council to develop and implement a fair, independent, and non-partisan process of selecting candidates to serve on the board;

(7) Stipulating that the advisory council shall recommend three candidates for each vacancy on the Board of Regents; and

(8) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2716, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2716, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair