Report Title:

Good Beginnings Alliance; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates $300,000 for Good Beginnings Alliance; requires matching funds from the private sector.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

86

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for the good beginnings alliance.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that public and private resources are needed to achieve the child outcomes adopted as state policy in House Concurrent Resolution No. 38, 1998. Act 77, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997, acknowledged a performance partnership among government, the business community, the philanthropic sector, providers of quality care, and parents, known as the good beginnings alliance.

The good beginnings alliance has been incorporated as a nonprofit entity that works through four good beginnings county councils and an interdepartmental council. The good beginnings alliance partners work to implement strategies in good beginnings county plans and in the state early childhood master plan that support progress towards the child outcomes and key indicators and benchmarks of those outcomes.

In order to continue the development and coordination of quality early childhood education and care services, the legislature finds that this public-private partnership requires public funding to match the private funding acquired to date.

The purpose of this Act is to continue coordination and implementation of the good beginnings alliance initiative.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for the coordination and implementation of the good beginnings alliance initiative, established under Act 77, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997; provided that this sum shall be matched by private sources for the purpose for which this sum is appropriated.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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