STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2365

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2484

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2484 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Establish in the Department of Education an Education Research and Development Revolving Fund to support the research and development of innovative curriculum, instructional materials, and related technologies; and

(2) Appropriate $1,000,000 to the fund.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and a private individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that this measure provides a mechanism to incentivize and support the research, development, marketing, and sale of innovative curriculum, instructional materials, and related technologies.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a blank appropriation amount to encourage further discussion by the Committee on Ways and Means; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2484, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2484, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair