Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend certain provisions of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, otherwise known as the Reinventing Education Act of 2004.

Specifically, the measure:

The measure also repeals the requirement that the Department of Budget and Finance transfer to the Department of Education all property under its control relating to the funding of collective bargaining agreement increases or administering federal funds on behalf of the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the Interagency Working Group's initial recommendations regarding the transfer of functions from the Department of the Attorney General and Department of Human Services to the Department of Education should not be enacted. Your Committee also finds that additional time is necessary to ensure the smooth transfer of functions and personnel from the Departments of Budget and Finance and Health to the Department of Education.

Your Committee has amended the measure by 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 2.