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 Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3122 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make appropriations in support of Hawaiian language immersion schools.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Puohala Elementary School, and three private individuals.

Your Committees find that interest in Hawaiian language immersion schools continues to grow and there is a need for more instructional materials and support.

The measure is being amended to include the funds to support translation services for seventeen schools at a projected amount of $5,000 per school, for a total of $85,000. The measure was also amended to eliminate the provisions regarding English as a Second Language.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3122, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3122, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.