STAND. COM. REP. NO. 443

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1049
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1049 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER BOARD ALLOWANCES FOR
     STUDENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration measure is to allow
foster boarding payment if the eligible foster child is attending
an accredited institution of higher learning on a part-time basis
for the first academic year.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services (DHS).

     Your Committee believes that foster boarding children should
be given the opportunity to better themselves by attending an
institution of higher learning on a part-time basis for the first
year.  Many foster children must attend school part-time in order
to work to support themselves while attending school.  This
measure allows them to do that without losing their foster
boarding support.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 1049, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1049,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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