STAND. COM. REP. NO. 371

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1118

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1118 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMPACT FOR EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the Governor from the Education Commission of the States and add a fourth member appointed by the Governor.

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

Your Committees find the guiding principle for the composition of the membership on the Education Commission of the States from each party state is that the members representing a state shall, by virtue of their training, experience, knowledge, or affiliations, be in a position to collectively reflect broadly the interests of the state government, higher education, state education system, local education, lay and professional, and public and nonpublic educational leadership. In an effort to follow the guiding principle and increase education expertise on the Commission, under this measure, the number of members appointed by the Governor will increase and the Governor will be removed from the Commission.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Rather than merely adding a fourth member to be appointed by the Governor, specifying that the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission will serve on the Education Commission of the States instead; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1118, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1118, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Government Operations,

________________________________ SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair

________________________________ MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair