STAND. COM. REP. NO.  777-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2046

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2046 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support adult and community education in the State by establishing the Adult and Community Education Program Special Fund with separate accounts for each community school for adults and clarifying that the adult and community education program will be funded through legislative appropriations supplemented by student fees.

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Education provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2046 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair