STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2806

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1846, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to
continue the coordination and implementation of the Good
Beginnings Alliance initiative.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Office of the Governor, Department of Human Services,
Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii
Association for the Education of Young Children, Hawaii Business
Roundtable, Good Beginnings Alliance, Institute for Native
Pacific Education and Culture, and a private individual.

     The Good Beginnings Alliance, established by Act 77, Session
Laws of Hawaii 1997, is an incorporated nonprofit entity that
works through four good beginnings county councils and an
interdepartmental council.  The good beginnings alliance partners
work to implement strategies in good beginnings county plans and
in the state early childhood master plan that support progress
towards the child outcomes and key indicators and benchmarks of
those outcomes.

     In order to continue the development and coordination of
quality early childhood education and care services, your

 
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Committee finds that this public-private partnership requires
public funding to match the private funding acquired to date.

     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
of H.B. No. 1846, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading 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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