STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2982

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1860

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1860, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to support the Department of Education's (DOE) website operations.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Education, the DOE, and the Hawaii Business Roundtable.

Your Committee finds that the DOE website is a two-way communication vehicle for obtaining feedback from stakeholders and other interested parties, as well as receiving and responding to inquiries, and with the increased emphasis on accountability and greater access to data, the DOE must have the ability to update and maintain its website.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1860, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair