STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1351

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 880

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 880, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a mark licensing agreement program within the Department of Education that allows the Department and individual department schools to engage in commercial enterprises that provide financial resources for educational activities, provided that the enterprises support the primary educational mission of the school and Department.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that a mark licensing agreement program that allows the licensing of Department of Education and department school marks may provide funding opportunities, such as sponsorships, that exist outside the realm of educational funding to schools.  Your Committee notes, however, that if this measure is considered during Conference, it should be clarified whether it is intended that a sponsored performance authorized under the program must be simultaneously "private, cultural, and athletic" in nature, or need only be "private, cultural, or athletic" in nature.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting as unnecessary the word "service" from the title of the proposed new part to chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 880, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 880, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair