STAND. COM. REP. NO. 7

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 160

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 160 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL MEALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Add a definition of "school meals" to include breakfast and lunch; and

 

     (2)  Clarify that the Department of Education shall set prices for all school meals, based on the previous year's costs, to ensure that the cost to the students shall be not less than one—half of the cost of preparing the meals.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the Department to adjust its meal prices annually in response to changes in costs, reducing the possibility that funds for food subsidies will need to be taken from other educational programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical amendments to correct drafting errors.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 160, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 160, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair