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 Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2862 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Education to seek proposals for possible use of its vacant classrooms for early education programs offered by public, nonprofit, or private entities and to appropriate funds for that purpose.

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

Your Committees find that this measure will help to determine the demand for early education services and gauge early education service provider interest and capacity. The implementation of early education programs must be made with the full support of the prospective host schools and communities.

Your Committees have amended this measure to make nonsubstantive, technical changes.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2862, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2862, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.