STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1363-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 185
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to:

     (1)  Statutorily establish the Hawaii State Student Council
          (Council);

     (2)  Require the Council to assume the statutory duty
          presently held by the Student Conference Committee to
          hold the annual conference of secondary school
          students; and

     (3)  Repeal chapter 371, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which
          statutorily established the Secondary School Students
          Conference Law.

     For purposes of public hearing, your Committee circulated a
proposed H.D. 1 draft that transfers the occupational and
physical therapy programs for children with special needs from
the Department of Health (DOH) to the Department of Education
(DOE).


 
 
 
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     DOH, DOE, and an individual testified in support of the
proposed draft.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Incorporating the amendments made in the proposed
          H.D. 1 draft;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to take effect on January
          1, 2001; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive revisions for clarity,
          consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No.
185, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 185, S.D. 2, H.D.
1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair