STAND. COM. REP. NO. 441

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1027

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1027 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A NEW SCIENCE BUILDING FOR MOLOKA‘I HIGH SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,645,000 in general obligation bond revenues to the Department of Education for a new science building at Moloka‘i High School.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and a council member of the County Council of Maui County.

     Your Committee finds that Moloka‘i High School is in need of science classrooms that are designed to support the specialty needs of the high school science curriculum.  This measure will authorize general obligation bonds to meet that need.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1027 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair