STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2972

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2267

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2267, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize monies allocated for printed curricular materials to be expended for the purchase of digital formats of the curricular materials.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association, CompTIA, TechNet, and five individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that digital information technologies become more and more integrated into public school classrooms as time goes on.  Hawaii's students are growing up in a world where such technologies are increasingly prevalent, and many students have learning styles which are accustomed to taking advantage of those technologies when they are available.

 

     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. 2267, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair