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 S.B. No. 2182 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the constitutional provision regarding the status of the student member of the board of education from a non-voting member to a voting member.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, the Board of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and seventeen individuals.

Your Committee finds that the measure would be unlikely to pass in the House of Representatives without addressing the Department of Education's concerns regarding the limitation of the student member's voting privileges with respect to personnel and budgetary issues.

Your Committee has amended this measure to limit the board of education student member's voting privileges to exclude personnel and budgetary matters.

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 S.B. No. 2182, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2182, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.