STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2571

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 Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs 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.

In particular, this bill amends section 13-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes ("Board members; number"), to conform the descriptions of the school board districts and departmental school districts with the districts established by the 2001 reapportionment.

Your Committee finds that following the 1991 reapportionment, the Chief Election Officer issued a proclamation pursuant to section 13-1.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, designating which representative districts compose the departmental districts and school board districts described in section 13-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee finds that although this proclamation met the statutory requirement, it led to confusion by candidates and voters because the statute was not also updated to mirror the proclamation. Accordingly, your Committee finds that amending section 13-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, 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.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair