STAND. COM. REP. NO.  442

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 231

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 231 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PREAUDITS OF PROPOSED PAYMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Education to continue to use its resources in a more cost-effective and flexible manner by extending until June 30, 2020, the Department of Education's exception from the Comptroller's authority to have complete supervision of all accounts and to preaudit all proposed payments of $10,000 or more.

 

     The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this measure.  A concerned individual submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making permanent the Department of Education's exception from the Comptroller's supervisory authority and to preaudit all proposed payments of $10,000 or more.

 

     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 H.B. No. 231, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 231, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair