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. 2884 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funds for training and other support for school community councils.

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 and the Board of Education should work together with the school community councils to propose an entity to carry out future training and provide support for the school community councils.

Your Committee has amended this measure by including the Department of Education's suggested appropriation amount, requiring the department and the board, in conjunction with the school community councils, to propose an entity to conduct training and provide support for the school community councils, and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

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. 2884, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2884, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.