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.C.R. No. 176 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Board and Department of Education make known the fees, if any, charged for regular and special education supplies and services, and to request that the Legislative Reference Bureau conduct a comparative study of such fees in Hawaii and elsewhere in the nation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Department of Education. Comments on this measure were received from the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB).

Your Committee finds that it remains necessary to clarify for all stakeholders and the public in general exactly what the term "free appropriate public education" encompasses, and how the department meets those requirements at district, school, and individual levels.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 176, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 176, S.D. 1.