Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.R. No. 46 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this resolution, as received by your Committee, is to request Congress to reform the Individual with Disabilities in Education Act.

For purposes of receiving public testimony, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version that deletes its substance and inserts provisions requesting the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a comprehensive occupational validation study of educational officers and develop a market-based recruitment and retention plan.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in opposition to this measure. DOE submitted comments on this measure. The Christian Science Committee on Publication for Hawaii submitted testimony in support of the original draft of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the contents of the proposed H.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 46, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 46, H.D. 1.