Report Title:
Mandatory Economics Course; Elected Officials and Cabinet
Description:
Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to establish and conduct an economics education course for state elected officials and other state officers.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
3004 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to economics education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 201, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"Part . MANDATORY ECONOMICS TRAINING
§201-A Applicability of part. This part applies to legislators, elected members of the board of education, trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and executive department heads and deputies. This part does not apply to any other officer or employee of the State.
§201-B Mandatory economics education course. All state officers and employees enumerated in section 201-A shall complete an economics education course administered by the department of business, economic development, and tourism as provided in this part.
§201-C Economics education course. (a) The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall establish, design, supervise, and conduct economics education training specifically for the officers and employees to whom this part applies.
(b) The economics education course shall include:
(1) A survey of the basic concepts used to analyze economic questions;
(2) An examination of the major economic systems with emphasis on implications for resource allocation, income distribution, and economic growth;
(3) An analysis of the process of government decision-making and of the effects of governmental budgetary decisions, particularly tax decisions, on individual and business choices; and
(4) An analysis of approaches to current economic problems such as tax policy, budgetary deficits, monetary policy, social security, productivity, wage and price controls, and business regulation.
The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall develop and prepare any materials necessary to implement the course.
(c) The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall:
(1) Administer the economics education course;
(2) Designate those of its staff who are to conduct the economics education course; and
(3) Notify each officer or employee enumerated in section 201-A that attendance in this course is mandatory.
(d) The economics education course shall be held in January of each year for those who have not attended the course previously. The course shall last at least hours in length.
(e) The department of business, economic development, and tourism may repeat the course as necessary to accommodate all persons who are required to attend.
(f) Each state agency shall provide to the department of business, economic development, and tourism the names of those required to take the course in a timely manner and assist the commission by providing adequate meeting facilities for the economics education course."
SECTION 2. In codifying the new sections added by section 1 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.
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