STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1543-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2516

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FACILITIES FUNDING FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support facilities funding for charter schools by:

 

     (1)  Appropriating funds to the State Public Charter School Commission (Commission) to support its facilities pilot project, based, in part, on the need and performance of charter schools; and

 

     (2)  Requiring annual reports by the Commission to the Legislature for the duration of the pilot project.

 

     The Commission, Na Wai Ola Public Charter School, Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiian Educational Council, Hookakoo Corporation, and a few individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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 S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair