STAND. COM. REP. NO.79-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 1854
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1854 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PRESCHOOLS OPEN DOORS PROGRAM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to make an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Preschools Open Doors Program (Program) to:
(1) Increase the number of child care subsidies;
(2) Pay administrative expenses; and
(3) Provide parent workshops to the recipients of child care subsidies in each county.
The ILWU, Good Beginnings Alliance, and Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee recognizes that the Program has proven to be very popular and allows many children to attend preschool when their families could not have afforded preschool tuition without assistance. However, there are still thousands of children from low-income families who are not enrolled in a preschool program and would benefit from this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation to $1 to allow further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1854, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1854, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Housing,
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____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair |
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