STAND. COM. REP. NO. 583-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1908

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1908, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Education (DOE) to set aside $500,000 in federal impact aid to:

(1) Establish a military liaison position within DOE; and

(2) Provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Forum.

The DOE and a number of school administrators testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount of federal impact aid to establish a military liaison position within DOE and to provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Forum to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1908, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1908, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair