STAND. COM. REP. NO. 985-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1865

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1865, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Repeal the exemption for charter schools from requirements that the Board of Education use and expend certain federal funds for specified purposes;

(2) Require authorizers to timely provide state-level federal grant information to charter schools; and

(3) Require the State Public Charter School Commission to disburse federal funds and per-pupil funding directly to public charter schools.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1865, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair