STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1116

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 90

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 90, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for various operating expenses of the Department of Education.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Executive Office on Early Learning, Early Learning Board, and Hui for Excellence in Education.

Your Committee finds that this measure adjusts the amounts appropriated or authorized for the Department of Education from baseline amounts in the General Appropriations Act of 2017, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2018.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing appropriations for:

(A) Air conditioning repair (EDN400/OC - School Support); and

(B) Early learning induction program and additional prekindergarten classrooms (EDN700/PK);

(2) Indicating the program title associated with each program ID in the appropriations table;

(3) Adding the means of financing for line items that did not have a means of financing indicated;

(4) Providing that the Department of Education is the expending agency for line items in the appropriations table that did not have an expending agency indicated;

(5) Clarifying that the appropriations made in the measure are for operating costs, rather than capital investment project costs;

(6) Adding a severability clause;

(7) Adding a provision authorizing the Governor to correct manifest clerical, typographical, or other mechanical errors;

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

(9) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 90, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 90, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair