STAND. COM. REP. NO 116

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 820

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 820 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the number of public school student representatives from one to two representatives.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that increasing the number of public school student representatives to the Board of Education will give more students an opportunity to serve.  It will also enhance the students' experience by providing opportunities for peer collaboration for problem solving and reporting to the Board.

     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. 820 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair