STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1054

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 855
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
855 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for
permanent teacher positions to recognize that special needs
children are being placed in regular classrooms and that they
should be counted in determining the student-teacher ratio.

     The Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, and a large number of public school teachers
testified in support of this bill.  

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing specific appropriation amounts to $1 for
          discussion purposes; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and
          clarity.

     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 H.B. No.
855, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 855, H.D. 1.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair