Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 961 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Good Beginnings Alliance.

Your Committee finds that the Good Beginnings Alliance is a public-private partnership charged with the responsibility of improving early childhood potential through the development of quality early childhood education and care services.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the requirement that the Legislature fund this program annually and has further deleted the specific amounts appropriated to facilitate continuing discussion on this 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. 961, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 961, S.D. 1.