STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1274-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2239

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2239, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLEGE PLACEMENT EXAMINATION FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education to pay for SAT or ACT registration fees for:

(1) Public school students in the twelfth grade; and

(2) Public charter school students in the eleventh or twelfth grade,

who have not previously taken the SAT or ACT college admissions standardized tests.

The State Public Charter School Commission, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure. The Department of Education provided comments on 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 S.B. No. 2239, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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