requesting a management and financial audit of The comprehensive student support system of the department of education.

requesting the auditor to examine the feasibility of adding surfing as a sport to the oahu interscholastic association.

requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the implications of establishing local boards of education along county boundaries.

requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the funding and regulation of new century charter schools.

requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the implications of excluding principals from collective bargaining.

requesting the auditor to continue to oversee, on the legislature's behalf, the state's efforts to provide effective services to felix class children.

requesting the United States Congress to appropriate funds for forty per cent of special education and related services for children with disabilities.

URGING PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION TO MEET THE FEDERAL COMMITMENT UNDER THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT.

REQUESTING ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO assess and determine ways to reduce the paperwork AND DUPLICATIVE PROCESS requirements RELATED TO EXCEPTIONAL children and felix class children and ADOLESCENTS.

SB 1104

SD1, HD1

(HSCR 903)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO AUTHORITY OF FOSTER PARENTS TO PROVIDE CONSENTS FOR THE FOSTER CHILD'S EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL NEEDS.

Authorizes foster parents to provide consents for routine educational and recreational needs and activities of their foster children.

requesting the board of education to offer scholastic assessment test preparation courses in public high schools for elective credit.

URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH THE STUDENT CRIMESTOPPERS PROGRAM IN ALL HAWAII DEPARTMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO MAINTAIN A SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO IMPROVE STUDENT LAVATORIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH MANDATORY COMMUNITY SERVICE, WORK EXPERIENCE, OR SERVICE LEARNING AS A REQUIREMENT for GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL.

requesting the superintendent of education to convene a task force to develop a demonstration project for gifted and talented students in the Pearl City high school complex.

requesting the Board of Education, through the Superintendent of Education, to group and rank all lower education programs, including supplementary programs, according to their contribution to the mission of the Board of Education.

REquesting the Board of Education, through the Superintendent of Education, to withhold funds for textbook acquisition/replacement from schools that are not in compliance with Board of Education Policy No. 2240 concerning instructional materials.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CREATE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.

HCR 5

REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN THAT ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BECOME MORE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

Requesting THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCLUDE a PARENTING COMPONENT IN SCHOOL CURRICULUM.

requesting the board and department of education to reevaluate reading goals for students in Hawaii's public schools and increase system accountability for attaining those goals.

Ms. Linnel Nishioka, Deputy Director, DLNR

Mr. Clifford S. Jamile, Manager & Chief Engineer

City & County of Honolulu, Board of Water Supply

Mr. Milton Pavao, Manager

Hawaii County, Department of Water Supply

Mr. David Craddick, Manager

Maui County, Department of Water Supply

Mr. Ernest Lau, Manager & Chief Engineer

Kauai County, Department of Water

Mr. Gary Gill, Deputy Director, State Department of Health

4. State Agriculture Water Use and

Development Plan

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO SUBMIT A REPORT ON ALIEN SPECIES PROGRAMS.

URGING THE U.S. CONGRESS AND THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO ESTABLISH AND FUND A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - PACIFIC BASIN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER - MANAGED CACAO GERMPLASM CENTER IN HAWAII.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and the department of land and natural RESOURCES TO REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF MERGING ALL FUNCTIONS RELATED TO AQUACULTURE UNDER a single department.

REQUESTING THE HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY TO NEUTER, SPAY, AND TAG ALL DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER ANIMALS BROUGHT INTO THE sTATE AS PETS.