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. 3093, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to implement technological initiatives and enhanced automation requirements mandated by Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004 (Act 51), and to streamline and increase the automation level of key operational processes in the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that it is necessary to upgrade and integrate the Department of Education's existing fragmented information systems and provide a comprehensive, information system infrastructure to effect the kind of changes outlined in Act 51, otherwise known as the Reinventing Education Act of 2004.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the specific amount appropriated to ensure further discussion.

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. 3093, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3093, S.D. 2.