Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3053 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a non-school hours activities program coordinator within the Department of Education, and to establish a task force to review the State's non-school activities and programs currently being offered and make recommendations for improvements to those offerings.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Department of Education, and the Department of Human Services' Office of Youth Services. Comments in opposition to this measure were received from the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committee finds that as part of the task force's mandate, it should consider the expansion of student intramural and interscholastic activities, and that non-school programs should include cultural and career-exploration activities.

Your Committee has amended this measure to broaden the description of non-school programs and activities to be provided

by the department, and by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3053, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3053, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.