STAND. COM. REP. NO. 730

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 407

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 407 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to grant the Board of Education (Board) the authority to appoint complex area superintendents for schools.

The Board provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring approval by the Board prior to the termination of a complex area superintendent;

(2) Requiring the Board to give complex area superintendents adequate opportunity to present their case prior to the Board's decision on the termination; and

(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Lower & Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 407, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 407, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Lower & Higher Education,

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair