STAND. COM. REP. NO. 188-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2050
                                     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 Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2050 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to support
existing drug abuse and treatment programs in public high
schools, as well as to develop new programs in schools that do
not currently have such programs.

     The Hawaii Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Officers'
Association, the Community Alliance on Prisons, and several
students supported this bill.  The Department of Education
supported the intent of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that there is a significant drug
problem in high schools.  The DARE program, in which lower and
middle school students participate, does not extend into high
school, where drug use is most prevalent.  As testified to by
several students, drugs are easily accessible, and there is
widespread use even among the younger high school students.  This
bill will provide funds for treatment programs for students who
might otherwise have no way to deal with their drug problems.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting the amount of $1 as the appropriation for
          this bill to facilitate further discussion; and


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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2050, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2050, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair