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 S.B. No. 525, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable individual schools to be responsible for the maintenance of textbook inventories. This measure will allow school principals to collect fees and other fines for lost or damaged books.

The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in support of this measure.

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 S.B. No. 525, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.