STAND. COM. REP. NO.  667

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 607

      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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 607, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the composition of the Early Learning Advisory Board to designate one representative each from the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui and to appropriate funds for the travel costs therefor incurred by the neighbor island members of the Board.

 

     The Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, Good Beginnings Alliance, Early Learning Advisory Board, and a concerned individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 607, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair