STAND. COM. REP. NO.  343

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1440

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1440 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn program to build and enhance school-based health services, and to require matching funds by federal and private entities.

 

     The Department of Education, School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Education Farrington-Kaiser-Kalani Complex Area, Department of Education Nanakuli-Waianae Complex Area, Department of Education Kailua-Kalaheo Complex Area, Nanaikapono Elementary School, and Olomana School provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.


     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $3,408,609 for each year of fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for supporting the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn program.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1440, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1440, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair