STAND. COM. REP. NO.  120

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 719

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 719 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support infrastructure in the State that allows for data-based decision-making by the education community by appropriating an unspecified amount for the Hawaii Educational Policy Center to conduct research and policy analysis.

 

     The Hawaii Educational Policy Center and several concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  More clearly specifying the purpose of the appropriation;

 

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $150,000 for fiscal year 2013-2014 and the same amount for fiscal year 2014-2015; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency.


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 719, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 719, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Education,

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair