STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1818-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2384

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2384, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan to integrate design thinking and coding in middle, intermediate, and high school curriculums and to submit such plan, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature prior to the 2019 Regular Session.

Transform Hawai‘i Government and Oceanit 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2384, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair