STAND. COM. REP. NO. 328

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 403
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
403 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. 403 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 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.

     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.
403, 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. 403,
H.D. 1.
                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education,



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair