SB2619 SD1 SSCR2385

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2385

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2619

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2619 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to redistrict the at-large Board of Education districts and Department of Education school districts.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Board of Education and Office of Election. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committees find that the measure would amend Section 13-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to conform the descriptions of the school board districts and departmental school districts with the districts established by the 2001 Reapportionment. Following the 1991 Reapportionment, the Chief Election Officer issued a proclamation, pursuant to section 13-1.1, HRS, designating which representative districts compromise the departmental districts and school board districts described in section 13-1, HRS. Although this met the statutory requirement, it led to confusion by candidates and voters because the statute was not also updated to mirror the proclamation. Amending section 13-1, HRS, should decrease the confusion of candidates and voters as to which representative districts belong to the school board districts and departmental school districts after the 2001 Reapportionment.

Your Committees have amended the measure to accurately reflect the language in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2619, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair