Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1861 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that the Superintendent of Education submit a report to the Board of Education on the principal transactions made within the Department of Education (DOE) during the last year, which would then be presented to the Governor and the Legislature.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the DOE.

Your Committee finds that, although the DOE states that the provision that this measure eliminates is unnecessary and serves merely a housekeeping purpose, an annual report on the DOE's "principal transactions" is a significant public document. Your Committee would like assurances that the information that would have been contained in such a report to the Board will be contained in at least one of the fourteen other reports the DOE is required to submit to the Legislature, including the reports on:

Your Committee has amended this measure by making the effective date defective to allow for proper consideration of the concerns raised by this Committee.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1861, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1861, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.