Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2395 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to comply with federal requirements regarding terms of office for members of the state Commission on National and Community Service.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service.

Your Committee finds that to be eligible for receipt of a federal grant or allotment or to receive a distribution of approved national service positions, the State must maintain a Commission on National and Community Service that satisfies the requirements of the federal National and Community Service Act of 1990. One requirement is three-year terms of office, rather than the four-year terms state law presently provides. This bill makes that change.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2395 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.