Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred S.B. No. 3002 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help prepare students for technology-based jobs by appropriating funds to continue and expand the Environmental and Spatial Technology Project program statewide.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) testified in support of this bill, provided that appropriations from this measure do not replace or adversely impact current priorities indicated in the Executive Biennium Budget.

Your Committee notes DBEDT's suggestion at the hearing of public-private matching funds in determining the amount of state funds allocated under this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3002, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3002, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.