Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2284 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the Hawaii Revised Statutes to effectuate its title.

Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating $391,561 to the Department of Education for fiscal year 2002-2003 to continue the safety resource officer program in the central departmental school district. The purpose of the safety resource officer program is to ensure a safe school environment at elementary, middle, and high schools.

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 action to report out S.B. No. 2284 as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2284, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Education, for further consideration.