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. 3144 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an adopt-a-school program to which corporations would make tax-deductible contributions to fund school repairs and maintenance, and to establish a permanent task force on corporate donations for education.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association. The Department of Education submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that public-private initiatives can be positive forces in the education community, but recommends that a Legislative Research Bureau study be conducted to review all the existing not-for-profit education vehicles to report on their efficiency and accountability.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 3144, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3144, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.