STAND. COM. REP. NO. 994-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2074

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KAIAPUNI EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the establishment of three full-time equivalent Kaiapuni education curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent Kaiapuni classroom teacher positions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Department of Education; Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board; Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association; ʻAha Kauleo; Hui Makua O Pūʻōhala; Nā Leo Kākoʻo o Oʻahu; numerous individuals; and a petition with numerous individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the number of Kaiapuni education curriculum specialist II positions and Kaiapuni classroom teacher positions to unspecified numbers.

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 H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair