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 S.B. No. 16, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to create a tuition reimbursement program for individuals who graduate from a state-approved teacher education program in Hawaii and who teach in Hawaii public schools for at least six consecutive years.

The University of Hawaii, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, and the University of Phoenix testified in support of this measure. The Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency and style.

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 S.B. No. 16, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 16, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.