STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2052

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2119

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2119 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to remove unnecessary restrictions on the use of food distribution program revolving funds and allow the use of the funds to support the administration and operation of the food distribution program pursuant to 7 Code of Federal Regulation section 250.15.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to your Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will align the use of funds in the food distribution revolving fund with the allowable costs in the United States Department of Agriculture Food Distribution Programs.  Given these times of fiscal austerity, unnecessarily restricting the use of these moneys within this fund places a greater strain on the Department of Education's financial situation.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2119 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair