STAND. COM. REP. NO.268

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 525

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 525 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEXTBOOKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a system for monitoring textbooks by individual schools for purposes of accountability, and to enable schools to retain textbook replacement fees in school accounts.

Your Committee heard testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that, since the Department of Education already has a textbook monitoring system in place, it is not the lack of monitoring but the lack of financial support that explains the shortage of textbooks. Enabling schools to retain all moneys collected for lost and damaged textbooks provides incentives for schools to expedite the collection of fees and replacement of textbooks.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting provisions mandating the establishment of a textbook monitoring system, and clarifying that all moneys collected for lost and damaged textbooks are to remain at the school level.

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 S.B. No. 525, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 525, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair