STAND. COM. REP. NO. 342________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 856
                                     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 Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
856 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STUDENT
     ACTIVITIES COORDINATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to ensure
that each public high school has a full-time student activities
coordinator.

     Testimony in support of the bill was submitted by the Hawaii
Student Activities Association, the Student Conference Planning
Committee, a student activities coordinator, a former student
activities coordinator, and twenty students.  The Department of
Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted
testimony supporting the intent of the bill.

     Your Committee finds that student activities coordinators
not only coordinate activities at schools for all students, but
also develop leadership skills among students.  It is a job that
requires attention not only during the school year, but
throughout the entire calendar year.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by:

     (1)  Providing for each student activities coordinator to be
          hired on a twelve-month basis; and


 
 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive revisions for purposes
          of style and clarity.

     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 H.B. No.
856, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 856, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair