STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2760

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2180

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2180 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Governor to nominate members for reappointment to the Board of Education at least one hundred fifty days before the expiration of the member's term;

(2) Require the Senate to consider the reconfirmation of the Board of Education member at least sixty days before the member's term expires;

(3) Clarify that holdover members shall not serve as members of the Board of Education beyond the end of the first Regular Session of the Legislature following the expiration of the member's term unless duly appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate;

(4) Immediately disqualify from service any Board of Education holdover member whose nomination is withdrawn by the Governor prior to the holdover member's confirmation by the Senate; and

(5) Require the Governor to submit to the Senate, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each Regular Session of the Legislature, a list of the names of any vacancies filled by interim appointment and the number of any vacancies on the Board of Education.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the existing nomination, appointment, and confirmation procedures for Board of Education members could be improved and this measure will make changes to those procedures.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 30, 2075, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2180, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2180, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair