STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2283

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2051

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2051 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow individual Department of Education schools and career pathways, academies, or programs operated within a Department of Education school to engage in commercial enterprises, including the sale of goods produced by or for an individual school, career pathway, academy, or program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and seven individuals.

Your Committee finds that, in preparation for entering the workforce, it is essential that career development is incorporated into education. Career and technical education programs in public schools support hands-on learning experiences for students and provide students an opportunity to apply content skills and knowledge in entrepreneurial and relevant ways. Allowing public school career development programs to market products and services and deposit funds back into the program will help keep these programs sustainable, while providing students with valuable opportunities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the Department of Education is authorized, not required, to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the purposes of allowing individual Department of Education schools and career pathways, academies, or programs operated within a Department of Education school to engage in commercial enterprises.

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 S.B. No. 2051, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2051, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair