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. 204 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to education.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that makes an appropriation for a grant to the United Service Organizations for welcome home celebrations for members of the Hawaii national guard in the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai.

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. 204, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 204, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Education and Military Affairs, for further consideration.