STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2035

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2136

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2136 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make clarifying amendments to various sections of chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by clearly defining the terms "attend", "attendance", "enroll", and "enrollment" as those terms are used in practice by the Department of Education.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that clarity is needed in regard to the use of the terms "attend", "attendance", "enroll", and "enrollment" in the Hawaii Revised Statutes so that the terms match the way those terms are used in practice by the Department of Education.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 S.B. No. 2136, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2136, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair