STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2715
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2421
S.D. 2
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2421, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to reestablish interagency working groups to address issues that remain unresolved since the termination of the interagency working groups originally established under Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.
Your Committee received written comments in support of the measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.
Your Committee finds that Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, created interagency working groups to develop plans for transferring certain rights, powers, functions, duties, and resources from various state departments to the Department of Education. However, the groups ceased to exist on June 30, 2007, leaving issues unresolved between the Department of Education and two other departments, the Department of Health and the Department of Accounting and General Services.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amounts to unspecified amounts;
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion on the measure; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, style, and consistency.
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. 2421, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2421, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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