STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2372

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3139
                                        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 S.B. No. 3139 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to set aside interest earned
by the educational facilities improvement special fund (special
fund) to be used solely for education technology.  This measure
also gives the legislature authority to authorize projects by
removing the provision subjecting special fund expenditures to
the allotment system under chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Education.  Testimony in opposition to this measure
was received from the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that in the past, the interest earned
on the special fund was never deposited into the special fund
even though additional funds are needed for the areas of
educational technology.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to include a
definition of "educational technology" and to provide that all
interest earned by the special fund shall be retained by the
special fund for the sole purpose of educational technology.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this

 
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report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 3139, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3139,
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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