Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2173 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require service learning opportunities for all public school students.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, and Youth Service Hawaii.

Your Committees find public benefit in service learning that engages youth to meet pressing community needs. Service learning will lead to a lifetime of civic engagement and service to the community.

Your Committees have amended this measure to reflect an appropriation amount provided by the Department of Education.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2173, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2173, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.