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 S.B. No. 2026 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds in the sum of $40,000 to establish an additional instructor position for the Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program at Baldwin High School.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two instructors from Baldwin High School.

Your Committee finds that the JROTC program at Baldwin High School is an exceptionally successful program with an increasing enrollment that requires an additional instructor.

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 S.B. No. 2026 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.