STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1154-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2254

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2254 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to find a more user-friendly, cost-effective alternative to traditional textbooks by directing the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a feasibility study on the conversion of hardcover textbooks to e-books for use in the public schools and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2009.

     DOE testified in support of this bill.

     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. 2254 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair