STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1001

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 287
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
287 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PEER
     EDUCATION PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
Peer Education Program (Program) to maintain the Program at the
twenty-six schools now being served and to expand it to ten new
schools in the upcoming biennium.

     The Department of Health, the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition, the Hawaii State
Teachers Association, two school principals, three Program
coordinators, twenty-nine students, and four former participants
in the Program testified in support of the bill.  The Department
of Education testified in support of the intent of the bill.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by:

     (1)  Changing the overall appropriation for each year of the
          fiscal biennium to $1 for the purpose of continued
          discussion;

     (2)  Changing the breakdown of these amounts for existing
          and new schools to unspecified amounts for the purpose
          of continued discussion; and


 
 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive revisions for 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 H.B. No.
287, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 287, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair