STAND. COM. REP. NO. 524-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1941

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. 1941 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support multilingualism and cultural diversity in the Department of Education (Department) by establishing and funding a world languages institutional support position in the Department.

The Department of Education; Department of Health Office of Language Access, University of Hawaii Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas; The Filipino Community Center, Inc.; Hawaii State Teachers Association; Native Hawaiian Education Council; Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers; HawaiiKidsCAN; Filipina Advocacy Network; Tinalak Filipino Education Council; Filipino American Citizens League; Hawai‘i Tesol; Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; and many concerned individuals supported this measure. Ho‘omana Pono, LLC opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050; and

(2) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider inserting an appropriation amount of $91,909.

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. 1941, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1941, 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