Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 38 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to non-school hour programs for children or youth enrolled in school.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education, Office of Youth Services, and Blueprint for Change. The Department of Human Services submitted testimony in opposition to the measure.

Your Committees find that the State lacks sufficient options for non-school hour structured programs and activities for students in grades six to eight. Structured learning environments and social activities during non-school hours, while parents or guardians may still be at work, are valuable programs that strengthen protective factors for youth.

Your Committees believe that providing optional quality non-school hour programs should be open to all youth regardless of their educational situation. Therefore, this measure has been amended to include:

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. 38, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 38, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.