Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, 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 to the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service, the AmeriCorps Program Coordinator for the Maui Economic Opportunity YouthBank, and a trainer with Kaiser Permanente. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from an individual.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service has provided a wide variety of many 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 a modest amount of matching funds will enable them to continue their operations by attracting continued federal funding.

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 S.B. No. 3039 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.