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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide individual public schools with a framework for an effective, accountable system to maintain inventories of textbooks. Specifically, the bill gives each school control over the money collected as fees and charges for lost, damage, or destroyed books.

The Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of the measure.

Your Committee finds that allowing each school to keep its own fines will provide an incentive for each school to expedite the collection of fees and the timely replacement of lost and damaged textbooks.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by including "broken" books for consistency with statutory language.

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 S.B. No. 525, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 525, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.