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. 480 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for three business specialist positions for the three following districts:

1. Hawaii;
2. Kauai; and
3. Maui.

The Board of Education and four individuals supported the bill. The Department of Education and the HGEA supported the intent of the bill.

Your committee finds that business specialists play a vital role in administrative services.

Your committee has amended this bill by changing the overall appropriation for each year of the fiscal biennium to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion.

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. 480, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 480, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.