STAND. COM. REP. NO. 231-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2048
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2048 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for
athletic training equipment and supplies for high schools.

     The Hawaii Athletic Trainers Association supported this
bill.  The Department of Education supported the intent of this
bill.

     Your Committee finds that high schools need to be adequately
supplied and funded for athletic training.  Asking high school
athletes to practice and compete without basic athletic training
supplies available is unfair, and even dangerous.  High school
athletes should not be afraid that if they are injured, they
won't have the necessary supplies to tend to, and rehabilitate
those injuries.  Athletic training techniques keep injuries from
being unnecessarily aggravated and facilitate faster healing,
which translates into greater safety and participation for
athletes.  Therefore, your Committee urges passage of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Incorporating language that would make athletic
          programs, including trainers, coaches, equipment and
          supplies, and transportation of teams standard workload

 
 
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          increase items in the planning and budgeting of new
          schools.  This will ensure that the monetary needs of
          athletic programs, including athletic training, will be
          accounted for in new schools automatically; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity 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.
2048, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2048, 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