Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 23 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to promote safe and nurturing environments for optimal learning and health for Hawaii's students. Specifically, this measure supports the expansion of coordinated school health throughout the state with continued collaboration between the Department of Education (DOE), the Department of Health (DOH), and the University of Hawaii, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

DOE and DOH testified in support of this concurrent resolution.

Your Committees have amended this concurrent resolution by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 23, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 23, H.D. 1.