STAND. COM. REP. NO.62

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 86

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 86 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE GOOD BEGINNINGS ALLIANCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to continue coordination and implementation of the Good Beginnings Alliance (GBA) initiative by making an appropriation to be matched by private funds.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Department of Human Services, GBA, Native Hawaiian Early Childhood Consortium, and other concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees recognize that GBA provides quality childhood education and care services and that the GBA's primary purpose is to increase and maximize resources for quality services for young children and their families. Your Committees also recognize that by appropriating funds to the GBA, these funds will be matched by private sources.

Your Committees agree with the Lieutenant Governor that the GBA has been a catalyst in the development and coordination of quality childhood education and care services. Further, your Committees support the Director of Human Services' belief that GBA should be dealt with under chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, dealing with grants and subsidies.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 86 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair

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MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair