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. 2201, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $120,000 toward the "Parent Project", a program to enable parents to use effective prevention and intervention techniques to change the destructive behavior of their strong-willed and out-of-control children.

Your Committee finds that the Parent Project is a vital element in the Department of Education's efforts to address the parenting skills of the parents of certain public school children and adolescents. The Project provides an immeasurable support to both family and child, and creates improvements in family and child relationships, child behavior at both school and home, and academics and school attendance.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the appropriation amount of $120,000, and leaving it blank to promote further discussion and development on an appropriate dollar amount.

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. 2201, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2201, S.D. 2.