Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2108 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to hire additional athletic trainers in public schools.

Your Committee finds that athletic trainers have proven to be an essential part of high school athletics and have provided experienced and knowledgeable health care to thousands of student athletes. Athletic trainers, however, are in short supply as many public schools with growing athletic programs lack adequate trainer expertise and health care.

This measure provides the additional athletic trainer positions needed to provide better coverage at practices and games and to cover conditioning, rehabilitative, and preventive injury programs at public schools.

Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical changes that have no substantive effect.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2108, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2108, S.D. 1.