STAND. COM. REP. NO.  836-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2122

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2122, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESEARCH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Education (DOE), University of Hawaii (UH), Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), and any other state agency as appropriate to share data to support research that will improve the educational and workforce outcomes and meet the longitudinal data requirements of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

     DOE, Workforce Development Council, UH, and the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2122, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair	____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair
	____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair