Bill Text: HI SB2786 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Searchable Budget Database

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 34 [SB2786 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2786-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2447

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2786

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2786, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to establish and implement a searchable budget database website that will be made available to the public no later than July 1, 2011.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will improve the transparency of operations within the Department of Education.  Your Committee further finds that implementation of a searchable budget database website that is available to the public will improve the financial accountability of the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2786, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2786, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair