STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2899
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 3195
S.D. 2
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. 3195, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a weighted student formula conversion program that provides supplementary allocations to schools adversely affected by the weighted student formula.
Your Committee finds that certain schools, especially the smaller schools, have been impacted by the weighted student formula. Your Committee is passing this measure to address this issue by increasing funding to the weighted student formula so that students in these schools may continue to receive necessary educational services.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adding the contents of S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, to appropriate funds for school equipment, supplies, and services and reimburse teachers for personal funds spent on classroom and instructional teaching supplies;
(2) Changing all appropriations to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussions; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
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. 3195, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3195, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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