STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 470
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2021
RE: H.B. No. 521
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 521 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION FUNDING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.
Your Committee finds that the Committee on Weights is responsible for, among other things, reviewing the issue of funding and revising the funding formula to provide for the equitable distribution of funds to all Hawaii public schools. Although there is major concern for insufficient funding for public schools, various Committees on Weights have recommended, and the Board of Education has approved, changes in the formula factor that has increased the weighted student formula base funding at schools. Since these changes affect the well-being of schools and students from all areas, it is important that the Legislature be made aware of these changes.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the time period for the Committee on Weights to submit a report to the Legislature detailing any changes to the funding formula to within thirty days of the Board of Education approving any changes to the funding formula.
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 H.B. No. 521, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 521, 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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____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair |
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