STAND. COM. REP. NO. 725

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1523

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1523 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUDGET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of programs of the Department of Education and certain programs of the Department of Accounting and General Services under the purview of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Lower and Higher Education.

The Department of Education, State Public Charter School Commission, Executive Office on Early Learning, Early Learning Board, Hawaii State Public Library System, and Department of Accounting and General Services supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2055, to encourage further discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Lower & Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1523, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1523, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Lower & Higher Education,

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair