Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 292, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds under the school priority program.

The funds are to be used at the discretion of each public school or school complex to purchase supplies, textbooks, and equipment pursuant to section 302A-1306, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide much needed discretionary resources to individual schools and school complexes to allow sufficient levels of funding for the purchase of educational supplies, textbooks, and equipment to benefit Hawaii's public school children.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 292, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 292, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.