STAND. COM. REP. NO.  135

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 852

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 852 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase competition in contracting for student transportation services by exempting contracts for student transportation from statutory requirements for labor costs.

The Department of Education supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 852 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair