STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2024

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2162

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2162 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AFTER-SCHOOL PLUS PROGRAM REVOLVING FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require funds deposited into the After-school Plus Program revolving fund to include only funds collected as fees or charges for participation in the program and interest earned on the revolving fund deposits.

 

     This measure also:

 

     (1)  Clarifies that the revolving fund is part of the state treasury; and

 

     (2)  Clarifies that the after-school plus program funds shall be used to support the program.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education and HiTech Quest.

 

     Your Committees find that the After-school Plus Program of the Department of Education is supported by the fees and charges and other moneys deposited into the After-school Plus Program revolving fund.  The Program provides after-school child care and activities for eligible low-income and latchkey children.  Currently, the law provides for the deposit of general funds into the revolving fund; however, such deposits are problematic as they render the fund, essentially, not a true revolving fund.  This measure requires that the revolving fund include only funds collected as fees or charges for participation in the program and interest earned on the revolving fund deposits, which will allow the revolving fund to satisfy the criteria for being a true revolving fund.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the After-school Plus Program revolving fund shall consist of fees and charges collected by the Department of Education for administering and operating the program; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Human Services and Public Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2162, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2162, 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 Human Services and Public Housing,

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair