STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2989

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2817

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2817 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT REQUIREMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal certain Department of Education annual reporting requirements.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committees find that the Department of Education has numerous reporting requirements, some of which are no longer necessary. This measure will repeal some of those unnecessary reporting requirements, which would allow the Department of Education's staff and resources to be put towards other priorities.

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2817, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2817, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair