STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1872-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2862

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

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 received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association, Democratic Party of Hawai‘i Education Caucus, Henry J. Kaiser High School, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Department of Education.

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 S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair