STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2883
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2732
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BLIND PERSONS' AND LITERACY RIGHTS AND EDUCATION ACT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the individualized education program of each blind or visually impaired child includes provisions for instruction in braille.
Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to ensure the economic well-being of the blind and visually impaired.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the individualized education program to specify the length of period of instruction and the frequency and duration of a typical instructional session;
(2) Changing the certification standards for teacher proficiency in braille to those adopted by the National Library Science for the Blind and Physically Handicapped;
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2007; and
(4) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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