Bill Text: HI SB2570 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Constitutional Amendment; Board of Education

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-14 - (S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-16-10 1:45PM in conference room 329. [SB2570 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2570-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2265

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2570

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2570 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM AN ELECTED BOARD TO AN APPOINTED BOARD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to require voting members of the Board of Education to be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, as provided by law.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two private organizations.  Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was submitted by one private organization.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by two state agencies and one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the nomination and appointment process identified in this measure will increase the Board of Education's accountability for all matters relating to public education in Hawaii.  Your Committee also finds that the use of a Board of Education Candidate Nomination Commission will produce a number of qualified candidates that will help to provide a clear vision for the Board of Education going forward.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2570, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2570, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair