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. 3039 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $142,000 in state matching funds for the administration of the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service has provided a wide variety of valuable community service opportunities for Hawaii's young people, including programs well-regarded by the national AmeriCorps organization. Providing the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service with matching funds will assist them to continue their operations by attracting additional federal funding.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill to delete the specific dollar amount of the appropriation to make it an unspecified amount for the purpose of promoting further discussion.

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. 3039, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3039, S.D. 1.