Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Science, Arts, and Technology and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3021 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an open source software pilot project within the Department of Education to assist in establishing and implementing a policy on the purchase and use of open source software applications within that department. The measure also makes an unspecified appropriation to the Department of Education to fund this pilot project.

The Department of Education testified in support of the measure.

Your Committees find that this open source software pilot project would enable the Department of Education to conduct a broader and more comprehensive evaluation of open source software applications with potential future use of this software in statewide administrative systems as well as for school-based instructional purposes.

Your Committees have amended the measure by making an unspecified appropriation for this open source software pilot project to be expended by the Department of Education.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Science, Arts, and Technology and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3021, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3021, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.