STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2418

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 583

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 583 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reduce the percentage of the Department of Education operating budget that the Department may utilize for administrative expenditures and increase the percentage of appropriations for the Department's total budget that may be expended by principals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that student success is bolstered by the efficient and effective use of the Department of Education's limited resources. Your Committee further finds that decreasing the Department's administrative expenditures and increasing the resources that may be expended by or on behalf of the Department's schools will directly benefit Hawaii's public school students.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the reduction in the percentage of the Department of Education's operating budget that may be expended on administrative expenditures applies to fiscal year 2020-2021 instead of fiscal biennium 2019-2021; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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. 583, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 583, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair