STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1132

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1085
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1085, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR
     EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate emergency
funds to the Department of Education to fulfill the requirements
of the Felix Consent Decree and to prevent the reduction or
discontinuance of essential services for students in regular and
special education programs.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association.

     Your Committee finds that the requirements of the Felix
Consent Decree must be fulfilled without any reduction or
discontinuation of other essential services to students.
However, in these difficult financial times, it is important to
your Committee that any moneys appropriated will be spent
effectively.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure to
change the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount to allow
further discussion about how much money should be appropriated to
effectively fund necessary services.

 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1085, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 1085, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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