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. 2721 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal a statutory requirement for the Superintendent of Education to provide the Board of Education with an annual report of principal transactions made within the Department during the last completed year.

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

Your Committee finds that the statutory language concerning "principal transactions within the department" was vague, and that the Department regularly prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the Board of Education when requested or required, so that the portion of the statute to be repealed may be unnecessary.

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. 2721 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.