STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1639

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 119
                                        S.D. 1




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.C.R. No. 119, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     EDUCATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO
     PROVIDE ALL HAWAII PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH THE
     OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A NUTRITIOUS BREAKFAST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of
Education, the Department of Health, the Department of Human
Services, the Office of the Governor, the University of Hawaii's
Center on the Family, and the Good Beginnings Alliance to
collaborate on increasing the number of children who have an
opportunity to eat a nutritious breakfast.

     Your Committee finds that the relationship between providing
children with a nutritious breakfast and observing substantial
gains in student achievement is one of the few social service
(e.g., education, health, and human services) reforms that most
mainstream childhood development experts are willing to embrace
without hesitation or sniping.  Child nutrition programs pay for
themselves by reducing the future load on the State's social
services system, and are not always appreciated by people looking
only for immediate short-term gains in student achievement.
Child nutrition programs are an investment in Hawaii's future.


 
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     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 119,
S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

                                 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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