STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1179

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 53

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.R. No. 53 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ALLOW TEACHERS TO USE PURCHASING CARDS WHEN PURCHASING SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND OTHER RELATED CURRICULUM SUPPORT SUPPLIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Education to allow teachers to use purchasing cards when purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Procurement Office and Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that teachers are often responsible for acquiring certain supplies and supplemental instructional materials themselves.  Allowing teachers to use purchasing cards, rather than purchase orders, is a more efficient way for teachers to acquire the supplies or supplemental instructional materials needed for their classrooms.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the Department of Education is requested to:

 

     (1)  Allow teachers to use purchasing cards or declining balance purchasing cards; and

 

     (2)  Develop policies and procedures related to the use of purchasing cards or declining balance purchasing cards by teachers.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 53, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 53, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair