Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1923 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education (DOE) for a "parent project" administered through DOE's parent-community networking centers that educates parents on appropriate prevention and intervention techniques for handling strong-willed and out-of-control adolescents.

Several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. DOE submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that student learning begins at home. Some children, as they enter adolescence, begin to have behavioral problems that pose major difficulties for their parents, and have a detrimental effect on their studies. This bill will support a valuable program to help parents to better confront these issues and enable their children to become better people and students.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1923, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1923, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.