STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3330

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2491
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2491, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the law that limits
the price of a school lunch to $1 per child, and to allow the
Department of Education to set the price of a school lunch based
on the cost of its preparation.

     Specifically, this bill:

     (1)  Limits the price of a school lunch to one-third the
          cost of its preparation, rounded to the nearest 25
          cents, adjusted during the first year of the fiscal
          biennium; and

     (2)  Requires the price of a school lunch to be based on the
          average cost of its preparation over the three years
          preceding the second year of the fiscal biennium.

     Your Committee finds that the cost of preparing a school
lunch is borne by the State, the federal government, and the
child.  Repealing the law that limits the price of a school lunch
to $1 per child will lessen the fiscal burden on the State when

 
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federal subsidies remain fixed and the cost of preparing the
lunch increases.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2491, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 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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