STAND. COM. REP. 464

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1358

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1358 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education (DOE) for career and technical education programs.

DOE, University of Hawaii, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that career and technical education programs provide many valuable opportunities to public school students. Career and technical education programs no longer represent a less rigorous academic program, but are truly focused on providing a challenging curriculum designed to provide students with specific marketable skills.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1358, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1358, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair