STAND. COM. REP. NO. 44-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2667

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2667 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MEDIUM EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Hawaiian Language Medium Education Program (HLMEP) in which instruction is provided through the medium of the Hawaiian language. Among other things, the bill provides for:

(1) The creation of a separate office of Hawaiian Language Medium Education within the Department of Education (DOE) to direct and control HLMEP;

(2) A Hawaiian language medium state education agency to administer HLMEP schools statewide; and

(3) Collaboration between DOE and the Hawaiian Language College of the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

The chair of the Academic Programs Division of Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikölani, the Hawaiian Language College at the University of Hawaii-Hilo, testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this bill allows the establishment and administration of programs providing instruction in the Hawaiian language throughout the state DOE.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2667 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair