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. 969 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Department of Education (DOE) from using the annual contribution by a nonprofit organization to reduce, suspend, or offset its normal budgetary allocation to a new century conversion charter school.

The Kamehameha Schools, Hookakoo Corporation, Kualapuu Elementary School, and Waimea Middle School testified in support of the bill. The DOE provided comments on the bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill is necessary to ensure that any additional grant funds provided to charter schools will not adversely impact their standard appropriation from the DOE.

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. 969 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.