STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1196-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2200

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2200 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the requirement that the Department of Education (DOE) adopt rules relating to the Running Start Program (Program) pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).

DOE supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that rules subject to chapter 91, HRS, do not include administrative regulations concerning internal management, which do not affect private rights or procedures affecting the public. DOE has fully implemented the Running Start Program for nearly six years, consistent with Board of Education and DOE policies, without the apparent need for any rules. Your Committee is uncertain about the purpose of this bill, and believes that if DOE finds it necessary to enact rules that affect private rights or procedures affecting the public, such rules should be adopted pursuant to chapter 91, HRS.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2200, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2200, H.D. 1.

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

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair