Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 995, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is to require the Department of Education (DOE) to create a consolidated school textbook list.

For the purpose of receiving public testimony, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version of this bill. As amended, this bill repeals the school-to-work program in Hawaii's public schools.

DOE supported the intent of the proposed H.D. 1.

Your Committee finds that federal moneys for Hawaii's school-to-work program have been fully expended. Funded through a five-year grant, the school-to-work program was successful in creating several initiatives that will continue through the efforts of other entities. The formal school-to-work structure is therefore no longer needed.

Your Committee has further amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 995, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 995, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.