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 S.B. No. 2063 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to hold public school students accountable financially for loss or damage to textbooks.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association.

This measure would authorize the principal or a designee to retain fees for the loss, destruction, breakage, or damage of school textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, or supplies. Authorizing principals to collect such fees would provide an incentive for students to take better care of the school's limited resources.

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 S.B. No. 2063, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2063, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.