001thank you for joining us for our joint committees on education and energy economic development and tourism wednesday february 17th 3 o'clock p.m in room 229 this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being streamed live on youtube you will find links to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website this zoom meeting and youtube live stream event will include the three o'clock joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on energy economic development and tourism the 305 joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on agriculture and environment the 310 joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on labor culture and arts and the 315 pm agenda for the committee on education in the unlikely
002event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on friday february 19 2021 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for the people participating remotely all testifier audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name staff will unmute you and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner thank you we have one item on this joint agenda senate
003bill 516 relating to education requires the state board of for career and technical education to oversee and review annual annually statewide data collection processes and reporting requirements related to the student attainment of industry recognized credentials requires certain agencies to collect and report disaggregated data on students attainment of industry recognized credentials requires certain agencies to pursue data sharing agreements with credentialing entities requires an annual report to the governor and the legislature to testify we have terri ushijima department of education terry please good afternoon chair kidani vice chairman carlo kim chair wakai and vice chairman lucha i'm tereshijima interim assistant superintendent with the department of education testifying on behalf of superintendent christina kishimoto the department supports the intent of senate bill 516 and we stand on our written testimony noting that resources will be needed to modify
004existing data collection systems to collect the information being requested in the bill the department continues to be committed to strengthening and advancing a consorted effort among various partners to prepare students including the attainment of industry recognized credentials to contribute to the vitality of hawaii's workforce i'm available for questions thank you members questions if not next testifier bernadette howard director for university of hawaii career and technical education bernadette aloha chair vice chair members of the committee we have submitted our testimony we are very much in favor of this bill we just have a couple of qualifiers um first we already do a report to the governor so doing this is not a big leap for us what we are doing around the state is connecting data on everything related to career pathways which includes the certificates
005and credentials and whatever along with a lot of other data points and we're doing it across all agencies so we need a little more time to be able to get all the work together and actually measure and be immense report so we're asking for another year before we report we're asking to please check the data security language to make it stronger thank you for this opportunity thank you members questions bernadette i do have one question actually could you uh um please provide us some language that this bill needs to in to be strengthened as you uh testified to we'd be happy to do that thank you next testifier ke ala peters for chamber of commerce hawaii hi senator they're not present thank you they were in support david miyashiro testifying for hawaii kids can david
006aloha chairs vice chairs and members of the committee hawaii kids can stand on our written testimony in strong support of sb 516 we wanted to also take a moment to highlight the economic policy institute's research but the overall unemployment rate for young workers nationally ages 16 and 24 jumped from 8.4 to 24.4 from spring 2019 to spring 2020. i think we all agree the margin of error for young workers in particular in our local economy moving forward will remain incredibly tight sp 516 will give students a stronger chance of moving into those challenging economic waters ahead mahalo for allowing me to testify thank you david members questions we have no further oral testimony members do you have any questions for testifiers let's go into recess calling this joint meeting of the committee on education and
007the committee on economic development tourism sorry glenn we're here um the recommendation of the chairs is to pass this out with amendments and the amendments would be uh as offered by the attorney general's office adding in a new subsection h in section 2 protecting privacy and confidentiality of the data also the amendments offered by oha to disaggregate data for native hawaiians instead of saying pacific islanders it's native hawaiians separate and pacific islanders strengthen the data security provisions in this bill that will be provided by university of hawaii and noting in the committee report that in order to implement the data collection and reporting more time may be needed before the implementation as suggested by the university of hawaii bernadette so with those amendments members are there any questions your committee has questions members if not
008recommendation of the chair is to pass senate bill 516 with amendments chair votes eye share votes eye on senate bill senate bill 516 vice chair votes eye senator de la cruz senator kanu aye senator favela five members president of voting affirmative recommendations adopted for the committee on energy economic development tourism saying recommendation to pass this measure with amendments any discussion if not senator missoula i vote yes for senate bill 516 for the committee on energy economic development and tourism chair recommends password amendments chair votes i vice chair votes i senator lee is excused senator revere is excuse and senator fabella your recommendations adopted chair thank you thank you this meeting is adjourned thank you for joining us this is the joint committee on education and committee on agriculture and the environment we are here to
009deliberate on two bills senate bill 1251 relating to the hawaii farm to school program authorizes the department of education to meet the local farm to school meal goal of 15 percent of food served in public schools to be locally sourced by and 30 by 2030 here to testify randall tanaka department of education randy please senator chair kidani vice chair kim senator gabbard and senator nishihara thank you very much for your time and members of the committee we stand by our testimony and the objectives to achieve the 15 and local products in our school menus it's here to answer any questions if you have them thank you very much for your time thank you randy next to testify micah munekata director of government affairs for ulu pono initiative micah good afternoon chair kidani chair gabbard members
010of the committees michael munica here on behalf of the little pony initiative we stand on our testimony and strong support of this measure we do request one small amendment regarding the measurement of the percentage of food and it reads as measured by the percent of the total cost of food just to tighten up the language a little bit um so that um you know when we move towards this goal that we actually have meaningful progress thank you very much thank you micah john garibaldi testifying for local food coalition john please aloha chairs a lot of vice chairs members of the committees uh my name is john garvalli on behalf of the local food coalition uh we stand in strong support um on our written testimony thank you very much thank you john next to testify
011lauren zerbel executive director hawaii food industry association lauren please good afternoon chair vice chair members of the committee i'm alexis chapman for hfia we stand on our testimony and support and i'm available for questions thank you thank you next to testify brian miyamoto hawaii farm bureau ryan please good afternoon chairs vice chairs member of the committee brianna miyamoto here on behalf of the hawaii farm bureau will stand on our written testimony in support of this measure thank you next to testify eileen nanny and individual senator they're not present thank you in support that is the last of our oral testimony members are there any questions of any of the testifiers senator gabbard any questions yes i actually had a question for doe for randy hello senator yeah randy in your mind is the firm to
012school meal goals laid out the bill achievable by doe or just like pie in the sky well you know it depends on the school and the location i won't tell you it's going to be an easy task because it's a combination of price and products right and as tourism returns the competition for the product will lead to who can pay the highest price which is for the benefit of the farmer which is which is a good thing right then then they can achieve the kind of economic prosperity they work so hard for um and we're going to see as we move towards the recovery of of the economy right now i would tell you it's a buyer's market because they have no outlet for limited outlet but that's going to change we're going to give
013it our best effort we will report back to you on a regular basis on how we're achieving and where we are and then have that that robust discussion with all our partners i mean with with ryan and will pono and and all of the folks that are participants in this this goal we're all in this together you understand the potential achievement for our local economy and for the health and welfare of our students and our children so we're going to work hard at it it's a good thing to do hollow randy mahal a chair thank you chair members with no further questions we'll go on to our the next bill on this agenda this is senate bill 1311 relating to sustainable schools requires the department of education to establish food waste and zero emission vehicle
014goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative requires annual reports to the legislature to testify randy tanaka department of education please good afternoon i'm cherokee donnie kim jerry gabbard nishihara thank you for your time once again our our goals are the same to achieve a better economy reduction of our our importation of oil the doe has a large number of solar panels on our roofs and we should maximize that effort through electric vehicles we know that's a good thing so we stand by our testimony and thank everyone for their hard work thank you next to testify christopher younker for scott glenn chief energy officer hi this is chris juncker for the hawaii state energy office and we stand on our written testimony providing comments i will be available for questions thank you thank you christopher
015next to testify micah monikata ulupono initiative thank you chair um we stand on our testimony and support thank you that is the end of our oral testimony members do we have any questions of the testifiers you have a question for senator kim question for randy hello senator kim yes so randy on page um i guess page five page four and five it talks about the uh oh i'm sorry are we on 13 11 yes yes 13 11. um about the assessment of the current transportation contracts and vehicle inventory for zero admissions so um you folks contract for the buses right yes senator we do and so are they bus bus um companies that have buses that have zero emissions i'm a little history on that when i first came aboard with the doe there were
016there was tremendous discussion about how we're going to transition from internal combustion engines to the electric environment i will tell you that's going to take a little time because the bus companies have substantial investment in their equipment and some of the equipment has a longer life cycle and then it's a function of where do they dispose of these buses as a phase in the electric buses the other concern they had was there's been some tests actually with jtb as a number of electric buses and its capacity to climb some of these hills or wherever they're going had some challenges but they've kind of addressed that it it will be a reach to convert all these buses within that cycle and it's really the private sector whether it be roberts or transpar or the folks we're
017dealing with now and and we need these buses right we transport a fair amount of students we transport special ed which is a federal requirement so there's some challenges to get there i'm sorry i can't give you a clean answer right now we're working through that process as we negotiate these bus contracts well that's my concern whether or not you can actually i mean you're complying with this is to give a report but literally it's going to depend upon what's going on in the private sector because until we can buy your own buses which you're not going to be able to do or probably not advisable to do as to how soon that we can get to that zero admissions to me i'm not sure if it's going to be a process of one that's
018going to be i don't know what how fruitful it will be so anyway you're absolutely regret correct because they could exit the market if it's going to cost too too much for them to meet our requirements and what are we going to pay for these technically upgrades to the buses it's it's going to be a tough one and it's not only the buses it's bus drivers we have a declining workforce in that area right because folks are retiring so we're gonna have to see that challenge but but we're gonna work with the hawaii state energy office and and see what kind of opportunities we have and how we can get better at it i i would agree with you it's it's going to be a bit of a stretch but we're going to try okay
019well i'm surprised you didn't bring that up in your testimony but thank you thank you chair gabbard any questions from okay let's go into recess my we are reconvening the committee meeting on education jointly with committee on agriculture and environment in hearing the two bills so senate bill 1251 the recommendation of education chair is to pass with amendments amendments are technical and non-substantive amendments we will also be noting in the committee report that procurement exemptions may be required to effectuate the goals in this bill members questions not senate bill 1251 to pass with amendments chair votes i chair votes on senate bill one two five one pass with amendments uh vice chair votes i senator de la cruz excused senator kanoha aye senator favela four members president voting in affirmative senator de la cruz aye
020okay five members president thank you members chair gabbard your vote same recommendation for aen trip votes i vice chair nishihara excused senator ocasio aye senator rhodes aye senator fidello aye measure passes thank you members thank you for senate bill 1311 relating to sustainable schools recommendation of the chair for education is to pass with amendments that are technical and non-substantive amendments and also in the committee report we will note the comments by senator kim relating to the requiring the reports that the department of education has little control over with that members questions senate bill 1311 passed with amendments chair votes eye chair votes on senate bill 13-11 with amendments vice chair vote side any members president voting in no any members voting with reservations hearing none all five members present voting i recommendations adopted thank you
021chair gabbard same recommendation for aen any discussion chair votes i any opposition or reservations seeing none note the absence of senator nishiro measure passes thank you members thank you that concludes this joint hearing one thank you for joining us for the joint committee on education and committee on labor culture and the arts wednesday february 17th it's a little further than 3 10 p.m but that's what the agenda was i'm sorry for the lateness we had three other hearings before this um to deliberate on senate bill 810 relating to collective bargaining eliminates the superintendent of education as a voting member constitu member constituting the public employer for the purpose of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with personnel of the department of education let's see to testify cynthia covell for the department of education please good afternoon
022cheers kadani vice chairman of kim and bihar and committee members i'm cindy covell the assistant superintendent for talent management hawaii state department of education respectfully opposes sb 810 eliminating the superintendent of education as a voting member in collective bargaining negotiations for unit 5 our teachers and unit 6 our educational officers could impede the department's ability and management rights to manage direct and control operations additionally equipping in the board of education with the majority of the votes would hinder the governor's ability to exercise broader authority and oversight responsibility for balancing the state's budget mahalo for the opportunity to testify and stand by to answer your questions thank you next for water chief negotiator office of collective bargaining riker please follow the chairs voice chairs and members of the committee frankerwater chief negotiator for the office of
023collective bargaining we echo the department of education's testimony and do note that this has drafted this measure would significantly diminish the governor's authority and ability to manage the department of education's expenditures it would give the board of education the majority of votes by reducing the number of votes allocated to the government and allowing the board of education the ability to uphold the government the negative impact the governor's broader authority oversight and responsibility of balancing the state's budget negotiating collective marketing agreements for 14 other marketing meetings thank you for the opportunity to testify and happy to answer any questions thank you riker that concludes the oral testimony members open to questions please no questions from education committee senator tanguci no question yeah i wanted to make uh appoint members that you know when uh this collective
024bargaining agreement was drawn up that the board of education were elected members and not appointed members and i find it strange that the superintendent who is overseen by the board of education you know could actually vote against the people that have hired her so this is one of the reasons that i uh you know uh put together this bill and i will say that in listening to the testimony i am willing to consider an amendment that would actually leave the governor with the three votes and the board of education with the two votes but just remove the superintendent and who would you recommend to replace her nothing so it would just be three and two that sounds good because right now it's how many six so if you remove the superintendent it would be five
025i'm okay you're okay with that senator yes any questions okay so um that's what the recommendation will be and i will now go back into the hearing we're ready to go back oh sorry no it's fine you can make the recommendation without going to the point okay we don't need to go and recess we just spilled our guts well i did anyway okay so the recommendation for senate bill is to pass with amendments and the amending the distribution of the votes to be three to the governor and two to the board of education and removing the superintendent from the mix members questions if not senate bill 810 recommendation recommendation of the education chair is to pass with amendments chair votes eye chair vote sign on senate bill 810 uh vice chair will go with reservations
026senator de la cruz aye senator kanoha aye senator favela okay uh five members president the recommendations adopted thank you chair taniguchi yeah same recommendation for the community and labor culture and the arts um senator yahara for labor committee members we're voting on the chair's recommendation to pass senate bill 810 with amendments chair taniguchi aye vice chair votes aye senator chang aye senator keough recommendations adopted thank you this concludes the hearing of the joint committee thank you for joining us this is a meeting of the hearing of the committee on education wednesday february 17th scheduled for 3 15 we had three previous meetings so pardon our tardiness starting with senate bill 270 relating to education appropriate elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund known as esser funds monies received by the state from the coronavirus aid
027relief and economic security act supplemental appropriations act 2021 to offset any budget reductions that are identified or proposed by the department of education and the governor that would result in the reduction of personnel who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to chapter 89 hawaii revised statutes and who are employed at the school level including any budget reduction that results in a layoff furlough or pay reduction requires the board of education and superintendent of education to certify in writing the board of education superintendent and department of education agree to the conditions established by this act including that the funds appropriated shall be used only for salaries and wages of officers and employees who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement and are employed at the school level provides that monies from the appropriation shall
028lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium that was a mouthful to testify brian hallett department of education please aloha chairman superintendent thank you thank you good afternoon cher kadani vice chairman kazuo kim and members of the committee the essa grant from the usdoe is intended to address the impact of the covet 19 pandemic on our public education system my recommendation to the board of education for these one-time funds is to provide solutions for unmet needs to close severe learning gaps provide for health and safety measures to reopen schools and offset critical shortfall areas we agree school leaders teachers and staff are vital to an effective education system i believe these positions need to be secured through permanent funding not one time we need funds this is why we've taken the 120 million dollar gift
029back from the governor in our base budget and allocated it back to schools to reduce their funding reductions to zero in special education and down to one percent in wsf even with the give back we simply do not have enough funds to run a quality public school system i welcome the conversation around ensuring the predictability reliability adequacy of funding for our schools that our students deserve thank you corey rosalie hawaii state teachers association uh thank you chair kidani members of the education committee hsa strongly supports sb 270. currently there are 1300 employees including 800 teachers who have been informed that their positions have been eliminated on top of that voe employees including teachers have been threatened with a 9.23 pay cut this bill would appropriate federal funds to offset any budget reductions that would result
030in layoffs furloughs or pay reductions last night i spoke to teachers from kauai in the last year they have been threatened with 20 pay cuts they were threatened with pay cuts right before christmas and now they're threatened with 9.23 pay cuts for the next four years on top of that they've been told they potentially could lose their jobs teachers across the state are stressed and the sooner we act to allay those stresses would only benefit our teachers but also our keiki thank you thank you sherry nakamura testifying for hey coalition thank you aloha chair kidani vice chair kim and committee members my name is sherry nakamura director of haiti coalition we are testifying in support of sb270 proposed st-1 we agree that priority for our system should be on restoring positions at the school level
031and that the federal funds should be used to guarantee that these positions are maintained to be even more specific we think that personnel in the classroom those who are closest to our students should be the highest priority therefore we suggest in our written testimony amending the language on page 4 lines 17 and 18 to read and who are employed at the school level in the classroom thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you sherry susan nicola davis susan aloha this is disney cola davis the member a community member aloha chair kidani and committee members thank you for the opportunity to humbly testify in support of this bill i had earlier submitted a written testimony that i've had time to reflect on with a different perspective we need to ensure the funding is going to
032protect layoffs furloughs or other such actions that at the end of the day affect our students one example could be that my first grade student with special needs has been coming to school in person since the school opened then the student comes to school one day expecting to see her teacher from yesterday and remember this child is a special needs child only in first grade how do you expect how do you explain to her that her teacher since the first quarter is not coming back do you have a new teacher now of course this example fits any elementary school student in lower grades with whom the teacher has established for foreign trust thank you susan members that concludes our oral testimony um i don't think we need to go into these sessions what questions we
033have two more questions i'm sorry question you said we had two more testifiers oh he's too anxious i'm sorry i need a breath you do okay members questions on this bill yeah i have questions senator kim superintendent are you still here yes senator thank you uh superintendent so currently now i know you said that the you said earlier you testified where the money goes so what percentage of the monies are actually going to to sustain um the personnel and the teachers we have if i may just check on that approximately eight percent only eight percent goes for salaries are you asking about the relief funds or you're asking or budget no i'm asking for the relief funds because that's what this bill relates to correct it relates yes this is related to the new relief
034funds right it's more than that foreign what i'm gonna have i'm gonna have cfo palette i want to make sure i answer you correctly i'm gonna have them jump on if that's okay senator yes because i want to make sure i'm referring to the correct funds hi senator brian hallett cfo um the pre the proposal submitted to the board of education for their consideration at tomorrow's board of education meeting we have reflected in that proposal approximately 14 and a half million out of the 183 million dollar award received by the state by the department of education out of the federal esser 2 funds that is approximately eight percent so in section two of the bill proposed language um it cites the sum of 104 million plus dollars as maybe necessary for fiscal year and the
035same sum to be identified by the department the governor should result in the reduction of personnel who are subject to collective bargaining and that the money is appropriate should not be expended for any other purposes so is that do i mean that correctly that all 104 million should go to salaries yeah i'm not exactly i'm not exactly sure of the breakdown because this has not been presented to the board of education yet as far as i know each year for two years i'm sorry so senator the the approach that we've taken is that the 123 million dollars that the governor um reinstated uh after he had cut 140 165 million we've taken the 123 million and and put that base funding since that's general funding and permanent funding back into schools and we're using permanent
036funding to restore positions this bill is referring only to the one-time federal funding but we took the opposite approach we're saying it's it's permanent funding that we're looking to put towards permanent positions and we are having a conversation with the board of ed tomorrow about using the one-time funding permanent funding for permanent position one-time funding for the other expenditures we have that are primarily non-salary that we don't have sufficient funds for so the food services costs that we've um that we have we do have um differentials included in that and that is salary related we also have uh in there the workers compensation that we need to also pay again so we have other non-specific classroom or non-salary expenditures that we're saying we want to use one-time funds again so we want to put permanent
037funds against the permanent positions we'll still have a shortfall of 141 or so million and that's where we continue our request to the legislature to address that shortfall with permanent partners okay so what happens if this bill passes if the bill passes then the the border bed would be looking at any bill that passes and what the implications are to the board there's also if the bill did not pass but at the end of the session there are not sufficient general fund budgets in the final budget bill that the board would be going back to look at all temporary funds to make sure that we're protecting closest to the classroom so again if this bill passes you would have to take 104 million dollars out of your general fund to make up for the monies
038that you took out of this cloven money that was used for something else i'm sorry i'm not understanding how this works we're not expending against these one-time funds until there are some further decisions being made about what our final budget is okay so you still have these funds intact yes okay they haven't been suspended and so according to multiple yeah moving points and we have to wait until we know what we have exactly to work with okay so according to this the funds shall appropriate shall not be released or expanded by the department of education unless the board of education superintendent of education certified in writing that the board superintendent in the department agreed to the condition set forth uh shall only be used so if the board and the superintendent don't agree then what
039happens well now the the board and superintendent will always agree i i put proposals before the board the board makes decisions financial decisions and directs me around those financial decisions so i will implement what the board makes a decision i understand but if you guys don't agree with this then what happens that's my point not necessarily you don't agree with the board but if you guys don't agree then what happens so the board and i have discussed the fact that we are as a strategy asking the legislature to to reinstate the base funding so that we can use permanent funding for permanent positions we know that if that were not to occur that we have to look at temporary funding and then we'll be having this conversation come next session because it's only one-time funding
040for permanent positions which is why we took the give back of the governor which is a 123 million which is base funding permanent funding and allocated that back to schools so that we have permanent funds against permanent positions there's still a shortfall so we're going to have to look at whether the legislature gives us additional dollars or whether we need to look at temporary funds okay thank you i think i have a better understanding thank you yes and i think senator also to note that there is a recommendation by the superintendent to not uh include the fringe that though i think the last 2010 when we had the same issue that we also took out the fringe so that they won't have to be looking for that so they are expecting 183 million dollars from
041the esser funds the governor thinks that there will be a 123 million according to the council of revenues however his budget had already passed over to the the house before that announcement was made and again the presentation by the department of education has not yet been made to the board that will happen tomorrow so some of these things um uh as we will note in the the recommendations for amendments um also will have to maybe be amended again in wham okay okay members further questions okay moving on to the second agenda item senate bill 76 sd1 relating to education requires the board of education prioritize for the superintendent of education position position candidates that have superintendent of education i'm sorry that have the minimum qualification of 10 years of employment in the department of education
042with at least five of those years serving in the capacity as a principal or hire and it deserves and a desired qualification for a candidate is having a working understanding of the state's tri-level system of educational administration to testify [Music] no testimony at all provided members any questions on this bill of nobody i have a question for nobody nobody may answer okay moving on senate bill 757 relating to special purpose revenue bonds to assist legerdine academy authorizes the issuance of up to 25 million dollars in special purpose revenue bonds to assist leijardine academy to testify corey rosenly hsta corey hey thank you chair kidani hsta opposes senate bill 757 we do not believe that public money should be used for private institutions we know that within the current hawaii doe system that we have a
043lot of needs currently within just our public schools the jacobs report showed that that we need seven billion dollars just for top priority yeah uh for additional classroom space that account for overcrowding and basic repair maintenance that if you take all of our needs 11 billion dollars uh in 2019 the dod requested 783 million dollars of cip projects we're only able to prove the legislature was only improved set by 281 we think this sets a dangerous precedent if we start using public money to help private schools i would ask you to not pass 757 thank you thank you corey there's no further testifiers i think senator kim would like to um define what a spurb is to you corey you might be misunderstanding what that is yeah there's no public monies that's been suspended it
044is basically them to get a sperm so that they can take advantage of the interest rate that um like incorrect please correct me that they can take advantage of so there's no state monies and i believe we've done this in the past for four years we are not obligated and not using any state funds that's necessarily monies to allow them to use the rate that the government uses to to purchase bonds is that does that help you corey so the question i would ask at the end of the day is this is uh would any state any state funds be needed to either maintain a loan pay the interest or in any way would that hurt against the doe cip budget no not not at all we have nothing to do the state is not
045obligated at all to pay anything should lay jardine not be able to pay their bills it's it's between the lender and leijardine and the only thing they do is use the government rate and again they have to apply for it and sometimes we grant this and they don't even apply for it but yeah okay thank you for the information thank you corey members that concludes the items on our agenda do we need to go into recess are you ready okay so the recommendation of the chair is going to be to pass senate bill 270 regarding the esser funds to pass with amendments we'll insert the proposed sd1 language with the following amendments on page three lines one and two delete the words in that the state is not currently experiencing a precipitous decline in revenues
046also inserting a blank appropriation for fiscal year 2021 and also noting in the committee report that the committee on ways and means may want to consider waiving the requirement for federal stabilization funds to pay fringe benefit costs to the department of budget and finance also there are technical and non-substantive amendments members questions um discussion i just want to put on the record that i did in fact speak with you regarding the possibility of including a part two the university of hawaii thought that something similar could apply to them and as the title does not allow for higher ed uh the title is not broad enough that this wouldn't be a good vehicle for that so just for the record yes you did thank you senator with that we are ready to vote on senate bill
047270 recommendation by the chair is to pass with amendments chair votes i chair with eye on senate bill 270 with amendments is there any of the members from the committee voting reservations or voting no hearing none we have all members present all voting for affirmative your recommendation is adopted thank you for senate bill 76 sd1 recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments and the amendments are technical and non-substantive in nature chair votes eye okay chair votes are on senate bill 76 with amendments uh any member voting no any member of voting wood reservations hearing none all five members voting affirmatively recommendations adopted thank you for senate bill 757 uh the superb special revenue purpose bonds for uh lee jardine academy recommendation of the chair is to pass as is chair mozai sure votes
048on senate bill 757 with no amendments as is any members voting no any members voting with reservations hearing none all five members voting in the affirmative recommendations adopted thank you and that concludes this hearing