THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Chair

Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009

 

DATE:

Monday, April 6, 2009

TIME:

9:30AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

(Deferred from Thursday, April 2, 2009)

 

HB 1583, HD1

Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Reduces tax credits allowed under chapters 235, 239, 241, and 431, HRS, by 75 percent for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and ending before January 1, 2011.  Suspends the use of tax credit carryovers generated from taxable years beginning before January 1, 2009, until January 1, 2011. (HB1583 HD1)

 

WAM

HB 395, HD1, SD1

Testimony

RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING.

Requires the department of education, beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, to use successful assessment tools and protocols for determining a student's initial placement and for decision making about a student's movement between junior kindergarten, kindergarten, and into grade one; clarifies provisions of the early learning system, including authorizing designees for all members of the early learning council, changing the name of the keiki first steps trust fund to the early learning trust fund, and specifying that moneys in the early learning trust fund shall not lapse to the credit of the general fund at the end of each fiscal year.  (SD1)

 

EDH/HMS, WAM

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-587-7200.