STAND. COM. REP. NO. 810-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1917
                                     




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.
1917 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a comprehensive
school health system that promotes the healthy development of all
students, by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Education (DOE) and the
          Department of Health (DOH) to jointly establish a
          comprehensive school health system (health system);

     (2)  Requiring the Director of Health, with the assistance
          of the Superintendent of Education, to establish and
          operate as a demonstration project, a minimum of one
          comprehensive school health program (demonstration
          program) in each of the seven departmental school
          districts;

     (3)  Establishing a joint DOH and DOE planning committee to
          plan and coordinate a phased implementation of a health
          system and demonstration program; and

     (4)  Appropriating funds for the demonstration programs.


 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1917 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair