STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2784

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2861

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the health of public school students.

Specifically, this bill improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the collection and disbursement of generated revenue, including federal moneys, to support the provision of medicaid-eligible health services for students in public schools by the Department of Education.

This bill creates the federal revenue maximization program revolving fund, to be administered by the Department of Education, and specifies the moneys that make up the fund.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill to clarify that moneys from the revolving fund shall be expended by the Department of Education for medicaid-eligible services provided by the Department. Your Committee also made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair