STAND. COM. REP. NO. 525

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 174
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Education
and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 174 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PEER
     EDUCATION PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
the peer education program to expand the program to five new
schools in each of the next two years.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Education, Department of Health,
Hawaii State Teachers Association, Keiki Injury Prevention
Coalition, several staff members of the peer education program
from various high schools, and numerous students from various
high schools who are associated with the peer education program
as peer educators or as members of the program.

     The peer education program in Hawaii public schools was
established in 1988 to address such serious teen health issues as
pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse,
violence, and suicide.  The peer education program has been
implemented in twenty-six schools throughout the State.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Education and
Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 174 and

 
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recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Education and
                                   Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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