STAND. COM. REP. NO.  523-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2484

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2484 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Education (DOE) to establish and maintain a priority list of schools in need of classroom cooling;

 

     (2)  Require that, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, no less than 50 percent of all funds appropriated to the DOE for classroom cooling projects be for grants to schools on the classroom cooling priority list; and

 

     (3)  Enable any school on the priority list to apply to the DOE for grants to fund energy-efficient classroom cooling projects approved by the school principal.

 

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The DOE and IMUAlliance provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and

 

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

 

     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. 2484, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2484, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair