STAND. COM. REP. NO.  570-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2170

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2170 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for an online platform to facilitate professional learning for Executive Office on Early Learning pre-kindergarten program educators.

 

     The Executive Office on Early Learning, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Children's Action Network, Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, Kamehameha Schools, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  An individual testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making the appropriation an unspecified amount;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Should this measure be heard by the Committee on Finance, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider an appropriation of $20,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the purposes specified in this measure.

 

     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. 2170, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2170, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair