STAND. COM. REP. NO. 752

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1271
                                        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. 1271, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable the Department of
Education to collect fees for all supplementary, discretionary
instructional services to students during times when school is
not in session.

     Currently, the Department is authorized to assess and
collect fees only for summer school and intersession programs.

     This measure expands the Department's authority to assess
fees for all non-school time programs by changing references to
the summer schools and intersession programs to out-of-school
time instructional programs, and changing the summer schools and
intersession special fund to the out-of-school time instructional
program special fund.

     While your Committee accepts the need to assess additional
user fees in these times of economic hardships for the State, we
are deeply concerned over the impact this measure will have on
the availability and affordability of programs for those most in

 
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need who may not have the financial resources to assume a higher
burden of a program's costs.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and drafting
style.

     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. 1271, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1271,
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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