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. 2654 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish on the Internet a centralized list of all projected construction projects by the department of education.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committee finds that the department's conceptualized six major system networks, consisting of the Project Management System, the Electronic Document Storage and Workflow System, the Financial Data System, the Facility Inventory and Assessment System, the E-Plan Room System, and the Non-Programmed Repair and Maintenance Work Order System, are necessary to manage department facilities efficiently and provide greater transparency and accountability.

Your Committee has amended this measure to reflect the description of the information and data system networks as provided by the department and to specify an appropriation amount as provided by the department.

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. 2654, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2654, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.