STAND. COM. REP. NO. 568-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1882

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1882 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for laptop computers or tablets to be used by teachers and students for digital teaching and learning in public schools.

Computing Technology Industry Association, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, TechNet and its member companies, Kamehameha Schools,

and three individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Education testified in support of the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider an appropriation of $8,200,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 for laptop computers or tablets as provided in this measure.

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. 1882, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1882, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair