STAND. COM. REP. NO.  571-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2510

      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. 2510 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the installation of air conditioning in permanent classrooms and portable classrooms in public schools that have not received air conditioning units, provided the school principal designates the installation of air conditioning units as the school's top priority.

 

     The Department of Education; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; Hawaii State Teachers Association; IMUAlliance; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; and an individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

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

 

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

 

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests its consideration of appropriating $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the installation of air conditioning in public schools as provided 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. 2510, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2510, 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