STAND. COM. REP. NO.318
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 70
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 70 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for full-time faculty positions for the University of Hawaii, College of Education.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Business Roundtable.
Your Committee finds that recent budget shortfalls at the University of Hawaii have resulted in a shortage of necessary faculty positions in the College of Education. Your Committee also finds that permanent funds are needed to replace temporary sources of funding for positions in special education in order to maintain current levels of productivity in special education. Furthermore, there is a shortage of school principals, necessitating additional faculty in the area of education administration; therefore, your Committee determines that funds should be appropriated to finance faculty positions at the College of Education.
However, your Committee believes that the additional faculty positions for the College of Education should be used for instructional positions and has amended the measure to reflect that intent.
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. 70, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 70, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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