STAND. COM. REP. NO. 667

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 79

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 79, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to implement the recommendations relating to education made by the Interagency Working Group established pursuant to the Reinventing Education Act of 2004.

     Specifically, this measure repeals the transfer of certain fiscal functions from the Department of Budget and Finance to the Department of Education.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that since the transfer of functions was amended in Act 225, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, from July 1, 2006 to July 1, 2007, the Department of Budget and Finance has not transferred any materials or records to the Department of Education.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure to remove all references in section 1 of the measure to the transfer of certain fiscal functions from the Department of Education back to the Department of Budget and Finance.

     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. 79, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 79, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair