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. 2115 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education for an athletic health care trainer specialist coordinator position.

Specifically, the position funded by this measure will coordinate the efforts of the Department's athletic health care trainers statewide and provide technical and professional advice and assistance.

Your Committee finds that athletic programs in the public school system must provide a safe and healthy environment. The athletic care program in the public school system has grown in complexity. The program now requires a coordinator with unique expertise to address the needs, problems, and conditions that surround the athletic care environment throughout the public school system.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount to a blank figure for purposes of continued discussion of the matter.

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. 2115, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2115, S.D. 1.