Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 15 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

1. Require that funding for coaches’ salaries, athletic health care trainers’ salaries, athletic equipment and supplies, and transportation of student athletes be considered standard workload increase items for the planning and funding of new schools; and
2. Appropriate funds for athletic training equipment and supplies.

The Department of Education supported this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 15 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.