Bill Text: HI HB1227 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Department of Education; School System Financial Accountability
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 6 [HB1227 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-HB1227-Introduced.html
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1227 |
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the department of education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-1301, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Not less than
seventy per cent of appropriations for the total budget of the department,
excluding debt service and capital improvement programs and appropriations for
agencies administratively attached to the department, shall be expended by
principals[.]; provided that beginning with the 2015-2016 fiscal
biennium, the percentage of appropriations required to be expended by
principals shall be increased annually by two per cent for ten years, at which
point ninety per cent of appropriations for the total budget of the department,
excluding debt service and capital improvement programs and appropriations for
agencies administratively attached to the department, shall be expended by
principals or for direct, school-related expenses."
SECTION 2. Statutory
material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is
underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.
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Report Title:
Department of Education; School System Financial Accountability
Description:
Requires a two percent annual increase for ten years in the percentage of the Department of Education budget to be expended by principals until the percentage is at ninety percent.
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