STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2497

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2905

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2905 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for transportation services for students attending Ke Kula Kaiapuni Hawaii o Kapaa on Kauai.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and twenty individuals.

Your Committees find that the Hawaiian immersion school attendance is growing exponentially and that support is necessary to continue the schools' methods of preserving Hawaiian culture. Your Committees further find that the Department of Education may partner with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) so that each may provide up to fifty percent of the yearly cost of the transportation services described in this measure, provided that the total yearly expenditure shall not exceed $75,000.

The measure is being amended to reflect the financial partnership with OHA that its Legal Advocate provisionally agreed to at the public hearing for this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2905, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2905, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair