STAND. COM. REP. NO. 288

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1232
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Water, Land,
and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1232
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAIIAN
     STUDIES PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for 38
SR14 classified personnel positions to be Hawaiian studies
program assistants.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Native Hawaiian Education
Council, the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs--Oahu
Council, the Advocates of Hawaiian Studies and Bilingual
Association, the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association,
Incorporated, the Aged Hawaiians, the Honolulu Alliance of and
for Lavender Youth, and over twenty-five concerned parents,
makua, and kupuna.  The Department of Education and Ka Piko O Ka
Ua Kanilehua submitted testimony in support of the intent of this
measure.

     Your Committees find that the Hawaiian studies program in
the state public school system is a valuable and essential
component of the state public school system.  The 1978
Constitutional mandate that the State promote the study of the
Hawaiian culture, history, and language by providing a Hawaiian

 
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education program ensures the preservation of the State's unique
and special native heritage for years to come.

     Your Committees have amended this measure to delete the
specific dollar amounts appropriated and to include funding for
other expenses incurred by the kupuna and makua of the program.
Your Committee finds that funding for travel expenses, the
preparation and gathering of materials, and medical and dental
benefits for the kupuna and makua may also be necessary.

     Your Committees believe that flexibility in regard to
funding for this program is necessary in these hard economic
times.  Your Committees also believe that the Committee on Ways
and Means is best able to determine the precise amounts available
to fund these aspects of the Hawaiian studies program as
specified in the measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Water, Land, and
Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 1232, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1232, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Water, Land,
                                   and Hawaiian Affairs,



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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair            DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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