Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2171, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds to the Department of Education for textbook purchases.

Furthermore, this bill requires school textbooks and curriculum to be aligned with that of the school complex as a whole.

Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that all public school students will have the textbook resources for mastering the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards that will enable them to compete in a global society and marketplace.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that a particular school's textbooks shall be aligned with the curriculum of that school's complex as a whole. Your Committee has also amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount to a blank figure for the purposes of continued discussion of the matter.

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 S.B. No. 2171, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2171, S.D. 2.