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.  1165-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2570

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2570, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 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 bill is to improve the accountability of Hawaii's public education system by proposing a constitutional amendment to Article X, Section 2, of the Hawaii Constitution, to require the members of the Board of Education (BOE) to be nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by the Governor, as provided by law.

 

     The Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Hawaii's Children First, Outrigger Hotels, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Governor's Administration, BOE, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Including a constitutional provision for the transition from an elected to an appointed BOE as provided by law;

 

     (2)  Accordingly, changing the question to be printed on the ballot to read, "Shall the members of the board of education be nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appointed by the governor, as provided by law, with a period of transition as provided by law?"; and

 

     (3)  Deleting the defective date of July 1, 2020, to require the bill to take effect upon compliance with Article XVII, Section 3, of the Hawaii Constitution.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2570, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2570, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair