STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2225

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2154

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2154 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BEFORE-SCHOOL, AFTER-SCHOOL, AND WEEKEND PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for before-school, after-school, and weekend programs for children.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Office of Youth Services, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and Blueprint for Change.

This measure is intended to help remedy the current social problem of school age children who are idle during times before school, after school, and weekends. The appropriation contained in this measure would provide programs for them to learn during these times.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making a stylistic change to the purpose clause regarding the importance of safe learning environments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2154, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2154, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DAVID MATSUURA, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair