STAND. COM. REP. NO.1060

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 821

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 821, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the funding for the Laptops for Learning Program (Program) and to expand the Program by starting a loaner program for students who cannot afford to purchase laptops through the Program.

The Department of Education opposed this bill.

Your Committee finds that this Program will provide students with greater access to computers.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Adding an unspecified appropriation for fiscal year 2002-2003; 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 S.B. No. 821, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 821, S.D. 2, 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