Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to train additional new teachers to help reduce the State's current teacher shortage by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to hire 23.5 instructors to provide teacher training at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa and at Hilo.

UH, UH-Hilo, the Department of Education, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, and Hawaii Business Roundtable testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.