Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2346 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys for the cost of the Department of Education's (DOE) electricity usage.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the DOE.

Your Committee finds that the projected DOE shortfall is due to increases in electricity usage and costs per kilowatt-hour, and that if the DOE does not receive funds to cover this shortfall, it will no longer be able to pay for utilities beginning in April of this year.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2346, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.