STAND. COM. REP. NO.  781-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1683

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1683 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to more efficiently provide early learning opportunities in the State by eliminating junior kindergarten beginning with the 2014-2015 school year.

The Early Learning Council supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services and Hawaii State Teachers Association provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 1683, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1683, H.D. 1.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair