STAND. COM. REP. NO. 338

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 1330

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1330 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL BUS SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education for school bus services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and Democratic Party of Hawai‘i Education Caucus.

Your Committee finds that the nationwide shortage of bus drivers has caused route cancellations and other disruptions in transportation options for students attending K-12 schools in the State. The lack of school bus drivers particularly affects schools located in rural and remote areas, where students have to travel great lengths to get to and from school. Your Committee recognizes that more funding is needed to hire additional school bus drivers to meet the demand for more school bus routes.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to June 30, 3000.

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 H.B. No. 1330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1330, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair