STAND. COM. REP. NO.  219

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 318

      H.D. 1

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. 318 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AUDITING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to mandate a periodic financial and management audit of the administration of the Department of Education.

IMUAlliance supported this measure.  The Department of Education provided comments.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Modifying the scope of the required audit from a periodic review to a one-time audit;

     (2)  Appropriating $1,000,000 to be expended by the Office of the Auditor to conduct the audit; and

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

     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. 318, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 318, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

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

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair