STAND. COM. REP. NO.322

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 929

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 929 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an after-school programs special fund into which fees collected for such programs will be deposited and from which costs of the after-school programs shall be paid.

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

Your Committee finds that after-school care for elementary age public school students is an important program offered at the public schools for children whose parents are working during and after-school hours. Your Committee further finds that the Department of Education has been supporting this program partially through fees that are deposited to the credit of the general fund, and that these revenues should more directly be managed by the department.

Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify that only fees collected for after-school programs administered by the Department of Education and operated at public schools shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 929, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 929, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair