CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 33

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 2000

                            RE:   H.B. No. 1874
                                  H.D. 1
                                  S.D. 2
                                  C.D. 1




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

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

    "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to establish an interagency
educational accountability working group that shall:

     (1) Review all relevant agency rules, policies, procedures,
         and practices and develop a list of those that are
         impeding educational restructuring and the efficient
         allocation of educational resources for the
         implementation of accountability measures;

     (2) Suspend the aforementioned list of rules, policies,
         procedures, and practices pending the approval of the
         Board of Education (BOE); and

 
 
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     (3) Submit a status report to the Legislature and the BOE.

     After careful consideration, your Committee on Conference
has amended this bill by:

     (1) Requiring that the working group only identify to the
         BOE the agency rules, policies, procedures, and
         practices recommended for suspension;

     (2) Requiring the working group to review those statutes
         that may be impeding restructuring and reallocation
         efforts;

     (3) Requiring the working group to report to the Governor
         those statutes, rules, policies, procedures, and
         practices that need to be suspended;

     (4) Requiring the working group to submit a status report to
         the Legislature sixty, rather than twenty, days prior to
         the convening of each of the 2001 and 2002 legislative
         sessions; and 

     (5) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of
         style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your
Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your
Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members:         

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE          ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE



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DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair             KEN ITO, Co-Chair



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BOB NAKATA, Co-Chair               DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Co-Chair