Bill Text: HI SB2997 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Education Grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB2997 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2997-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to education grants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the department of education receives federal grants for public education which must be used for specific purposes within specific periods of time, or else be returned to the federal government. Each grant has a catalog of federal domestic assistance number which categorizes the grant and identifies its intended purpose and any attached guidelines.
The legislature further finds that the department of education underwent a financial audit in each of the years 2013 to 2016. Each of these audits revealed that the department of education had underutilized over $175,000,000 of federal funding per year.
The purpose of this Act is to increase the transparency and accountability of the department of education, to better utilize federal grants, and to require the department of education to prepare a report detailing all unused federal grants for the last five years.
SECTION 2. The department of education shall review its financial records from the last five fiscal years, specifically its revenue from federal grants, including titled, discretionary, and formula-based grants. The department shall identify:
(1) All federal grants which the department received over the last five years;
(2) The amount of funds used from each grant;
(3) The amount of funds left unused and lapsed from each grant; and
(4) Ways that any unused funds could have been used.
The department of education shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including a description of each grant and the catalog of federal domestic assistance number for each grant, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2019. The department of education shall also provide a copy of the report to the board of education; the chairperson of the board of education; the superintendent of education; the chair and executive director of the state public charter school commission; the chairperson of the senate committee on education; the chairperson of the house of representatives committee on education; the governor; the president of the senate; the speaker of the house of representatives; the chairperson of the senate committee on Hawaiian affairs; the chairperson of the house of representatives committee on ocean, marine resources, and Hawaiian affairs; the chairperson of the board of trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and all county mayors, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2019.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Department of Education; Federal Grants; Report
Description:
Requires the department of education to prepare a report identifying any unused federal funds.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
