STAND. COM. REP. NO.502

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1227

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1227 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR INTERACTIVE LEARNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education (DOE) for an interactive learning program.

Riverdeep Interactive Learning submitted testimony supporting this bill. DOE submitted testimony supporting the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that interactive learning programs offer innovative and engaging new methods of instruction for Hawaii's students. Today's technology can provide an entertaining, yet informative approach to learning that can sometimes hold a student's attention more effectively than traditional instructional techniques.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Allowing the DOE to use the appropriated funds for multiple interactive programs; and

(2) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate further discussion.

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. 1227, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1227, 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