STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2013

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2822

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2822 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-SCHOOL HOUR PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate temporary assistance for needy families funds for non-school hour programs to be expended by the Department of Education, the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Service, and the Department of Parks and Recreation of each county.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the Island of Hawaii Young Men's Christian Association, and Kids hurt too.  Comments on the measure were submitted by the Department of Human Services and the Office of Youth Service. 

     Your Committees find that various organizations continue to make great efforts to establish and maintain safe and structured learning environments for school aged children during non-school hours.  Your Committees recognize that these organizations have been making significant impacts in their respective communities, and believe that appropriating moneys to support their efforts is a worthwhile endeavor.  Your Committees wish to indicate that they were not able to include other commendable community programs in this measure, and that the Committee on Ways and Means may wish to consider funding additional programs, such as the Palolo outreach program for at-risk youth sponsored by the Kaimuki-Waialae Young Men's Christian Association.

     Your Committees further find that it would be appropriate to add the language of S.B. No. 2875, which appropriates moneys to the Safe Haven demonstration project in the County of Hawaii, and S.B. No. 2242, which establishes a task force on non-school-hour programs and appropriates general funds for non-school-hour activities and a program coordinator position, to this measure to create an omnibus non-school-hours measure.  Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Incorporating the contents of S.B. No. 2875, relating to the Safe Haven demonstration project in Hawaii county, and S.B. No. 2242, relating to a task force on non-school-hour programs, into this measure; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2822, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Education,

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair