STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1367

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   S.B. No. 531

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 531, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority to be appointed by the School Facilities Authority Board, rather than by the Governor.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority is currently appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate.  Your Committee further finds that other agencies administratively attached to the Department of Education, including the Executive Office on Early Learning, State Public Charter School Commission, and the State Library System, require their respective boards to appoint their agency's executive director.  This measure will promote uniformity between agencies that are administratively attached to the Department of Education by authorizing the School Facilities Authority Board to appoint the Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 intent and purpose of S.B. No. 531, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 531, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair