Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1929, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for Hawaii 3R's, a volunteer program to repair and maintain the public school facilities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from United States Senator Daniel Inouye, the Department of Education, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii 3R's, Hawaii State Teachers Association, America's Promise Hawaii, Pacific Resource Partnership, Durus International Corporation, American society of Civil Engineers, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Hawaiian Electric Company, and two Department of Education principals.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii 3R's is an effective public-private partnership that leverages state funding efficiently to provide much needed repairs and maintenance in Hawaii's public schools on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended the measure 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 H.B. No. 1929, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1929, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.