STAND. COM. REP. NO.103-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1969

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1969 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Board of Education (BOE) to employ its own attorneys, independent of the Attorney General.

BOE and the State Librarian submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Attorney General submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that BOE often needs to seek legal advice and cannot wait for the Attorney General to process its request for assistance as the Attorney General is responsible for many other state agencies. Allowing BOE to retain its own legal counsel will significantly improve the response time on BOE's requests for legal assistance, and will provide BOE with needed flexibility.

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. 1969 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

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KEN ITO, Chair