STAND. COM. REP. 218

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1536

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1536 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CANOE PADDLING PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for high school canoe paddling athletic programs.

The Department of Education (DOE) and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that canoe paddling was recently officially sanctioned as a sport by all of the public high school sports leagues in the State. However, there is not enough money currently available for coaches, supplies and equipment, and transportation.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Specifying that the appropriation shall be in addition to DOE's base budget request; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes 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. 1536, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1536, 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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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair