STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2875

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 3022
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Health and
Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 3022, H.D. 1,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CHILD CARE
     CERTIFICATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
training and certification of income qualified individuals to be
trained to receive a child development associate credential to
facilitate quality care in a family child care setting.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Human Services, Office of
Community Services, and People Attentive to Children.

     This program is part of the federal Head Start program which
will provide 80 percent of the funding.  Private pre-schools
receiving Head Start moneys are required to have qualified
teachers.  Your Committees find that there should similarly be
qualified child care providers in homes.  The appropriation will
pay for tuition for welfare mothers to become child care
providers.  Training is provided by the community college system
of the University of Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Health and Human Services
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord

 
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with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3022, H.D. 1, and
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 Labor and
                                   Environment and Health and
                                   Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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