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<h3 style="text-decoration: underline" >Legislature agrees on funding to end school furloughs</h3>
<img src="http://10.210.0.45/session2010/senatecommittees/committeefiles/images/press release icon.jpg" title="Press release" alt="News release" width="65" height="65" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px" />The Hawaii State Legislature has agreed on a bill that will provide funding to restore educational furlough days for the remainder of this school year and through next year, using $67,000,000 from the Hurricane Relief Fund... <a href="http://www.hawaiisenatemajority.com/2010/04/24/legislature-agrees-on-funding-to-end-school-furloughs/" target="_blank" >Read more</a>
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Senate Committees to twitter hearing updates</h3>
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The Senate announced today that several committees will be participating in a pilot project using Twitter to provide real-time updates on the progress of committee hearings. The Senate Committees on Higher Education (HRE), Commerce and Consumer Protection (CPN), and Health (HTH) will be sending messages to let followers know that the hearing has convened, the bill or measure being discussed, and when the hearing adjourns... <a href="http://www.hawaiisenatemajority.com/2010/02/01/senate-committees-to-twitter-hearing-updates/" title="Senate committees to twitter hearing updates" target="_blank" >Read more</a>
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EDH hearing webcast - March 10, 2010</h3>
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The Senate Committees on Education and Housing (EDH), Human Services (HMS), and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs (WTL) held a hearing on Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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<a href="http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=13&clip_id=12293" title="EDH/HMS/WTL Hearing March 10, 2010" target="_blank" >Watch it now</a>
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<h3>For previous updates, visit our <a href="http://10.210.0.45/session2010/senatecommittees/committeefiles/CPN/CPNarchives.htm" title="CPN Archived News" target="_blank">archives</a>.
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