STAND. COM. REP. NO. 820-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 319
                                     H.D. 2




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.
319, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the safety and health
of Hawaii's students by:

     (1)  Establishing the School Health Services Pilot Project
          (Project) to expand the workday of health aides from
          six and one-half hours to eight hours per day at
          twelve, public middle and high schools statewide with
          enrollments in excess of 1,200 students;

     (2)  Appropriating funds for the Project; and

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Health (DOH) to report to
          the Legislature on the progress, experience, and
          recommendations for the expansion, improvement, or
          discontinuance of the Project.

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, the School
Health Aide Association, the Hawaii Nurses' Association, and
several individuals testified in support of this measure.  DOH
testified in opposition to this measure.  Comments were submitted
by the Department of Education.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 
 
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     (1)  Making technical amendments to make the bill applicable
          to the current fiscal and legislative year; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          clarity.

     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.
319, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 319, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair