STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2668

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2446

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2446 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Education to name the new public high school in Kihei, Maui, as established by Act 134, Session Laws of Hawaii, 2013, the "Patsy Takemoto Mink High School" in honor of the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink.

Your Committee did not receive any written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that former United States Representative Patsy T. Mink left an impressive legacy in Hawaii.  One of her most notable accomplishments was the spearheading of legislation that would later be known as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibited discrimination based upon gender in educational programs receiving federal funding.  Title IX has provided innumerable educational and athletic opportunities to young women that were not previously available.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Requiring the Board of Education, rather than the Department of Education, to name the new high school in Kihei, Maui after former United States Representative Patsy T. Mink;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

     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. 2446, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2446, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair