Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2961 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote the health and welfare of our school children by establishing a Federal Revenue Maximization Program Revolving Fund to collect and disburse revenue for Medicaid-eligible health services provided to public school children.

The Department of Human Services supported this bill. The Department of Education supported this measure with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 2961, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2961, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.