STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1219-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 814

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 814, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to honor the late United States Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink by requiring the Board of Education to name the new public high school in Kihei, Maui, the "Patsy Takemoto Mink Kihei High School".

The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this measure.  A member of the Maui County Council opposed the measure.  The Kihei Community Association submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 814, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 814, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair