STAND. COM. REP. N3-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 1863

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1863 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to implement the recommendations of the Interagency Working Group regarding the transfer of functions specified by Act 51, Session of Laws of Hawaii 2004, the Reinventing Education Act of 2004, by:

(1) Repealing the transfer of certain functions from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of the Attorney General, and Department of Human Services to the Department of Education (DOE); and

(2) Delaying the transfer of school health aides and public health nurses from the Department of Health to the DOE.

The Department of the Attorney General, DOE, Department of Human Services, Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Health, Department of Budget and Finance, and the Interagency Working Group testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1863 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

 

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KIRK CALDWELL, Chair

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair