STAND. COM. REP. NO. 333
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 1401
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1401 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to promote the teaching of languages as a part of an optional, after-school program in public elementary schools. This bill:
(1) Directs the University of Hawaii (UH) to establish a pilot program at a selected public elementary school by utilizing graduate assistants from the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature; and
(2) Appropriates $20,000 to implement this pilot program.
Over 50 teachers, school administrators, and parents testified in support of this bill. UH supported the intent of this measure, and the Department of Education offered comments.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriated amount to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct technical drafting errors.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1401, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1401, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Higher Education,
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____________________________ TOMMY WATERS, Chair |
____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair |
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