STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3532

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2266

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EARLY LEARNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure that the Executive Office on Early Learning has the necessary staffing and support to ensure a solid foundation for Hawaii's young children by appropriating unspecified funds for:

 

     (1)  Travel for the Early Learning Advisory Board to attend meetings;

 

     (2)  A secretary IV position for the Executive Office on Early Learning; and

 

     (3)  A research statistician IV position for the Executive Office on Early Learning.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State Public Charter School Commission, the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, the Hawaii Children's Action Network, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, the Hui for Excellence in Education, and Kamehameha Schools.

 

     Your Committee finds that providing adequate support for infrastructure and staffing to the Executive Office on Early Learning will allow the office to accomplish its mission to ensure a solid foundation for Hawaii's young children, prenatal to age five, by working with partners, families, and communities and connecting policies, programs, and funding in relation to health, safety, early childhood education, and school readiness and success. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying appropriation amounts of:

 

     (1)  $28,800 for travel expenses for the Early Learning Advisory Board to attend meetings;

 

     (2)  $39,492 for the establishment of a secretary IV position for the Executive Office on Early Learning; and

 

     (3)  $57,168 for the establishment of a research statistician IV position for the Executive Office on Early Learning.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair