STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1256

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1085
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1085, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1085, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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