CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 141-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2862

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education to install air conditioning units in public school classrooms that have not received air conditioning units or other heat abatement measures.

Your Committee on Conference finds that hot classroom temperatures in the State's public schools can adversely affect students and student achievement. Your Committee on Conference further finds that temperatures in Hawaii's classrooms are regularly recorded at over one hundred degrees during certain periods of the school year. Your Committee on Conference also finds that, while a prior appropriation successfully funded heat abatement upgrades for many public school classrooms, many more still require heat abatement improvements. Accordingly, this measure appropriates funds for classrooms that are still in need of heat abatement improvements.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation amount of $10,000,000; and

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2022.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON Co-Chair	____________________________ MICHELLE N. KIDANI Chair
____________________________ STACELYNN K. M. ELI Co-Chair	____________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO Co-Chair