Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3148, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the establishment of a Host Culture Charter School District (District) as a five-year pilot demonstration project in which the District shall:

(3) Be monitored by a Host Culture District Council;

The Hawaii Charter Schools Network, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Halau Ku Mana Public Charter School, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Government Employees Association offered comments, and the Department of Education opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, for the purpose of continuing discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3148, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3148, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.