STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2478

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2387
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2387, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of
Education to sell assistive technology devices to students with
disabilities who use these devices, once the student leaves the
public school system.

     Specifically, this bill enables the Department of Education
to sell these devices, which are customized for each individual
student and are thus unusable for any other person, at a
depreciated price, arrived at by formula in section 2 of the
bill, once the student leaves the public school system.  Proceeds
of sales are paid into the general fund.

     Your Committee finds that this bill will not only assist
students with disabilities by allowing them to continue using the
assistive technology devices that have been customized and
assigned to them after they leave the school system, but also
will allow the State to generate revenue, however modest, on the
sale at depreciated prices of devices that would otherwise have
been taken away from these students, but which cannot be re-used
or recycled.

 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by clarifying that the sale of these devices are made as the
student leaves, and not after the student leaves the school
system to ensure the transfer of the devices in a smooth and
timely manner.  In addition, your Committee has added a provision
to require agencies that procure assistive technology devices and
services to receive basic orientation and training to obtain
knowledge regarding the procurement of such devices and services
from the assistive technology project designated for the State
under the federal Assistive Technology Act of 1998.

     Your Committee has also made several technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and to
adhere to proper drafting style.

     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 S.B. No.
2387, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2387, S.D.
2.

                                 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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