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. 180 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

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

Your Committee finds that textbooks are needed in the classroom and, has therefore, amended this bill by changing the appropriation amount to $1. This amendment was made to ensure that all educational priorities may be incorporated into the education budget by your Committee on Finance. The Finance Committee has a more comprehensive perspective on the budget and is best equipped to make assessments of fund availability and final decisions on appropriation amounts.

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. 180, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 180, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.