STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2708

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2543

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2543 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to streamline administration of the 3R's school repair and maintenance fund.

     Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Eliminates the Hawaii 3R's advisory board;

     (2)  Repeals provisions setting standards for applicants submitting grant proposals to the fund and for imposing conditions for expenditures of the fund;

     (3)  Eliminates the requirements for an annual audit and for each dollar of state funds to be matched by public funds; and

     (4)  Eliminates the requirement for the Superintendent of Education to submit an annual report on the Hawaii 3R's school repair and maintenance fund to the Legislature.

     This measure also repeals the Hawaii teacher cadet program fund and all of its provisions.

     Your Committee finds that this measure makes housekeeping amendments that will delete outdated provisions and improve the delivery of public education, including streamlining the administration of the Hawaii 3R's school repair and maintenance fund.

     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. 2543 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair