STAND. COM. REP. NO.827

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 179

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 179 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

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

The Department of Education, Hawaii Technology Trade Association, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying its intent; and

(2) Providing that the funds be appropriated out of the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund rather than from the General Fund.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 179, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 179, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair