Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1394, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education to expend for additional staff and services at schools that are significantly impacted by a military contingent.

This measure also requires the Department of Education to compile a priority listing of public schools that are impacted by a large population of military dependent students.

Furthermore, this measure requires the University of Hawaii to establish a readmission program for returning military personnel who were subject to deployment.

Your Committee finds that this measure is aimed at facilitating the return of military personnel and their families to their former lifestyles prior to the disruptions caused by an overseas deployment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the date that the Department of Education must compile the priority listing to thirty days after the effective date of this measure. Your Committee has also changed the appropriation figure to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussions. Lastly, your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1394, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1394, S.D. 2.