Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 248 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for Families for R.E.A.L. (Resources for Early Access to Learning). This program allows parents to attend classes with their children. This bill establishes appropriations to fund four sites, one each in Honolulu, Central Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island.

Families for R.E.A.L. testified in support of the bill. The Department of Education supported the intent of the bill.

Your Committee finds that Families for R.E.A.L. fosters parent-student learning.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the appropriation figure to $1. The figure is amended so that the committee can have enough freedom to appropriate the right amount to this program at a later time.

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. 248, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 248, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.