Bill Text: HI HB2305 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Public Schools Science and Technology Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-28 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2305 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2305-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  183-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2305

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:              

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2305 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support the teaching and learning of science and technology in Hawaii's public schools by establishing the Hawaii Public Schools Science and Technology Trust Fund and authorizing state income tax return designations to the trust fund.

 

     The Department of Education; American Statistical Association, Hawaii Chapter; and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Taxation opposed this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii and a concerned individual provided comments.

 

     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. 2305 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair