Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 843, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the price of school lunches in proportion to the total cost of operating the school food services program and to allow the Department of Education to adjust the price to maintain this proportion.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds it necessary to adjust the student's share of school lunches due to the economic changes that affect the costs of preparing school lunches. Furthermore, your Committee finds the current language to be confusing and inappropriately placed in the statutes. Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure to clearly allow the department to set the price of school lunches with the Board of Education's concurrence to ensure that the price is in accord with average costs of its preparation.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 843, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 843, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.