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 S.B. No. 2270, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is to appropriate funds and allocate state and district resource teacher positions to educate public school students about the exclusion, removal, and detention of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The Japanese American Citizens League and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

For the purposes of receiving public testimony, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version of this bill creating the Hawaii Administrator Standards Board and Revolving Fund to establish certification standards for public school administrators.

The Department of Education and Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of the intent of the proposed draft. Two individuals submitted testimony opposing the proposed draft and requesting your Committee to retain the original language of this bill.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by incorporating both the contents of the S.D. 2 version of this bill and the proposed H.D. 1 version of this bill. Additional technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity and style.

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. 2270, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2270,

S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.