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. 178 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for supplies in the public schools.

The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the appropriation amount to $1 to give the next committee flexibility in assessing the priorities of the education budget.

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. 178, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 178, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.