STAND. COM. REP. NO. 332

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1728

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 Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1728 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education (DOE) to hire part-time teachers, tutors, or both, for elementary and intermediate public schools with instructional needs.

Several school administrators and faculty testified in support of the measure. DOE supported the intent of the measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing all appropriations to $1 to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 1728, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1728, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair