STAND. COM. REP. NO. 81

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 310
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING AND BUDGETING FOR
     NEW SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of
Finance, in consultation with the Superintendent of Education, to
include funding for coaches' salaries, athletic health care
trainers, athletic equipment and supplies, and the transportation
of athletic teams as standard workload increase items when
planning and budgeting for new public schools.

     The Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, and the Athletic Directors and Coaches Association
testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and
Finance testified in opposition to this bill.

     Your Committee finds that athletic programs are an integral
part of school curricula and should be properly funded as part of
the basic criteria for the funding of new schools.  Without
proper funding, schools may be forced to drop sports programs and
deprive students of the opportunity to participate in the
positive experiences that athletic programs have to offer.


 
 
 
 
 
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     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.
310 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to
the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair