Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3093 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to implement technological initiatives required by Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, to streamline and increase the automation level of key operational processes in the Department of Education.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, the Hawaii Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and five individuals.

Your Committees find that streamlining Department of Education information and data systems will increase Department of Education productivity, support for students and families, and Department of Education accountability and transparency.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3093, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3093, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.