STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3000

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2285
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2285, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAIIAN
     STUDIES PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to fulfill the requirements
of the State constitutional mandate by providing funds for the
Hawaiian studies program.

     Specifically, this measure provides funds for a resource
teacher for each school district and a supervisor to lead and
coordinate the resource teachers.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs
is to provide support services for the program.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ka Lahui
Hawaii, and seven individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaiian studies program
(Program) in the state public school system is the result of the
1978 state constitutional mandate under Article X, section 4,
which required the State to promote the study of Hawaiian
culture, history, and language by providing a Hawaiian education
program and by using community experience as a suitable and
essential means to further this program.  The program no longer
has resource teachers.

 
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     Your Committee agrees that the funds provided by this
measure are necessary to fulfill the requirements of the
constitutional mandate.

     Your Committee amended the measure by changing the
appropriation amount to $2.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2285, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 2285, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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