STAND. COM. REP. NO.  47

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 16

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 16 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the efficiency of school health functions by:

     (1)  Repealing the school health services program currently operating within the Department of Health (DOH);

     (2)  Repealing the transfer from DOH to the Department of Education (DOE) of public health nurses who supervise school health aides; and

     (3)  Creating a school health services program in DOE.

     DOE and DOH testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Clarifying that Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH)               2004, was amended by Act 221, SLH 2004, Act 22, SLH           2005, and Act 225, SLH 2006; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 16, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 16, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Health,

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair