STAND. COM. REP. 1468

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 945

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 945, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allocate a percentage of the Tocacco Settlement Special Fund and appropriate moneys to be used for nonschool-hour programs for children and youth.

The Office of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services, Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Education submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 945, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 945, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair