Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1858, H.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified sum of general revenues for before-school, after-school, and weekend programs to the Office of Youth Services (OYS).

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition and Blueprint for Change. The Office of Youth Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of the measure. The Hawaii Youth Services Network submitted testimony supporting the intent and recommending the use of tobacco settlement funds to support these programs.

Your Committees find that providing programs outside school hours is beneficial in keeping Hawaii's youths safe and helps prevent illegal and harmful activity. Your Committees further find that it is appropriate to specify a dedicated source of state funding for these programs as part of the State's commitment to supporting youth development and child protection.

Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by deleting its contents and substituting therefor S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 1, which:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1858, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1858, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.