Bill Text: HI SB583 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB583 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB583-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	583
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to education.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 302A-1301, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§302A-1301  School system financial accountability.  (a)  Beginning with the 1995-1997 fiscal biennium, the department's administrative expenditures shall not exceed 6.5 per cent of the total department operating budget, excluding expenditures for agencies administratively attached to the department, unless approved by the legislature.  Beginning with the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium, the department's administrative expenditures shall not exceed five per cent of the total department operating budget, excluding expenditures for agencies administratively attached to the department, unless approved by the legislature.

     (b)  Not less than [seventy] seventy-five 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."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Department of Education; Budget; Administrative Expenditures

 

Description:

Beginning with the 2019-2021 fiscal year, reduces the percentage from 6.5 per cent to 5.0 per cent of the total department of education's operating budget that can be expended for the department's administrative expenditures.  Increases the per cent of appropriations for the total budget of the department that principals can expend from seventy per cent to seventy-five per cent.

 

 

 

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