STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1002

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 310
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
310 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING AND BUDGETING FOR
     NEW SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to include athletics as an
integral part of the educational process by requiring funding for
coaches' salaries, athletic health care trainers, athletic
equipment and supplies, and the transportation of athletic teams
to be considered standard workload increase items when planning
and budgeting for new public schools.

     The Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, the athletic directors of the forty public high
schools testified in support of this measure.  The Department of
Budget and Finance commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
effective date to July 1, 2010.

     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.
310, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 310, H.D. 1.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair