STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2538

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2350

       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 Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2350, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to allow the student member of the Board of Education to be a voting member of the Board and mandate that the student Board of Education member be selected by public secondary school students in an election conducted by the Hawaii State Student Council.

 

     Your Committee finds that having the student member on the Board of Education elected by students will not only assist the Board in developing insight into the perspectives of students but will also provide a means by which Hawaii's public school students will be more personally empowered and vested in determining their educational future.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2350, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair