STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1181_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1269
                                     S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Health, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1269, S.D. 2, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR
     EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency
appropriation to the Department of Education for additional
personnel and other operating costs required to fulfill the
conditions of the Felix consent decree and prevent the reduction
or discontinuance of essential student services.

     Your Committees find that failure to support the
implementation of the Felix action plan and fulfill the
conditions of the consent decree could result in severe fines and
other draconian, court-imposed sanctions being levied on the
Department of Education.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this bill
from the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Health that are attached to this
report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 1269, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Health,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair       KEN ITO, Chair

 
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