STAND. COM. REP. 78

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 292

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 292 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SCHOOL PRIORITY FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to create the School Priority Special Fund (Special Fund) to enable principals at public schools to have a source of discretionary funding.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii State Parent, Teacher, Student Association. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this bill from the Department of Accounting and General Services

Your Committee finds that this bill would enhance the flexibility of public school principals in the fiscal management of their schools.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Making its language consistent with that of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Board of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association; and

(2) Exempting the Special Fund from the central services assessment under section 36-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

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. 292, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 292, 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