STAND. COM. REP. NO.  638

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1230

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to strengthen public education in Hawaii by reestablishing and funding an interagency working group, based on Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, with the overall goal of ensuring a standard level of service statewide through the creation of a comprehensive plan to transfer personnel and functions of the Department of Accounting and General Services, related to neighbor island public schools, to the Department of Education.

The Department of Education, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and IMUAlliance provided testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair