STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1649

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 501

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 501 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TEACHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMITTEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Teacher Education Coordinating Committee in its work to strengthen the efforts of all teacher education institutions in Hawaii by including a representative from each accredited state-approved teacher education unit, rather than from each accredited teacher training institution in Hawaii.

     The Department of Education and Hawaii Teacher Standards Board supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 501, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 501, H.D. 1.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair