STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2271

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2905

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2905 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the acquisition and development of information technology systems to redesign human resource management within the Department of Education.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that this measure would assist the Department of Education in meeting federal requirements or criteria under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Race to the Top grant to link teacher and principal effectiveness to student achievement.  The Department's current human resources management system requires the additional integration capabilities enabled by this measure to meet the federal requirements or criteria of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Race to the Top grant.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2905 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Economic Development and Technology,

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair