STAND. COM. REP. NO.  235

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1412

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1412 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

     H.B. No. 1412 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

     Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

     The purpose of the amended measure is to make certain amendments related to the fiscal operations of the Department of Education, including making permanent its authority to supervise its accounts, and making required housekeeping amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the action to report out H.B. No. 1412, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Education, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1412, H.D. 1.

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

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair