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. 3231, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow stipends for tutors and other volunteers who help schools before, during, and after school hours.

In addition, the bill excludes the stipends from the income tax and specifies that the tutors and volunteers are not state employees.

Your Committee finds that tutors and other volunteers fill important needs and roles in the public schools and in the education of Hawaii's children that might otherwise not be met or filled. The stipends will help to ensure that these needs continue to be met. In addition, a stipend will provide the tutors and other volunteers with a tangible symbol recognizing their contributions.

Your Committee made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this measure for clarity and consistency.

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. 3231, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3231, S.D. 2.