STAND. COM. REP. NO.  187-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2046

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2046 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support adult and community education in the State by establishing the Adult and Community Education Program Special Fund with separate accounts for each community school for adults and clarifying that the adult and community education program will be funded through legislative appropriations supplemented by student fees.

The Department of Education, Waipahu Community School for Adults, State of Hawaii Department of Education Community School for Adults, and several concerned individuals supported 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 H.B. No. 2046 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