Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 6, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for coaches' stipends.

The Department of Education and Athletic Directors and Coaches Association submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that the Legislature approved funding for coaches' stipends in 2001. However, the second increment of the two-step funding process was never allocated. This bill will provide funding for the second increment of the funding.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 6, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 6, S.D. 1, H.D. 1,

and be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.