STAND. COM. REP. NO. 625

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1049
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1049, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration bill 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 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 bill
will allow them to do that without losing their foster boarding
support.

     Your Committee has made two technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for the purposes of clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.

 
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1049, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1049, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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