STAND. COM. REP. NO. 747

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1173

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1173, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MATCHING GRANTS FOR SPACE EDUCATION PROGRAMMING SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Appropriate funds to be used by the Department of Education for a grant to provide space education programming services at the Barbers Point elementary school for fiscal year 2011-2012; and

 

     (2)  Require Challenger Center Hawaii to submit a plan to the Legislature to become financially self-sufficient for fiscal year 2012-2013 and thereafter.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Liane Kim, Founding Educator/Director, Challenger Center Hawaii and Stanley Seki, retired DOE administrator and member of the Challenger Center Advisory Committee.

 

     Your Committee finds that Challenger Center Hawaii prepares students for the global and technological workforce by providing hands-on experience in the much-needed areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.  Your Committee also finds that Challenger Center Hawaii provides direct professional development opportunities to teachers in Hawaii through its support of the NASA Educator Resource Center, which provides research materials and supplemental curriculum resources to teachers.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the expenditure requires private matching funds;

 

     (2)  Correcting the name "The Challenger Center of Hawaii" to "Challenger Center Hawaii";

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and 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. 1173, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1173, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair