STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2867

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1659

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1659, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable Department of Education charter schools to receive federal grant moneys under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Your Committee finds that most of the amendments proposed by this bill were made by Act 85, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005. Your Committee has amended the bill by:

(1) Deleting the proposed changes that were already made in 2005;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2006; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1659, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1659, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair