STAND. COM. REP. NO. 691-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1846
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1846 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE GOOD
     BEGINNINGS ALLIANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to maintain the role of the Good
Beginnings Alliance (GBA) as the critical link for early
childhood systems development by appropriating $150,000 to GBA to
continue coordination and implementation of its initiatives.

     GBA, the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the
Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Healthy
Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Good Beginnings of
Maui County, and Kauai Independent Daycare Services testified in
support of this measure.  The Departments of Human Services and
Education testified in support of the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriation to $1 for purposes of
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your

 
 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1846, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1846, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair