STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2739

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1854

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1854 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to remove unnecessary restrictions on the use of food distribution program revolving funds and allow the use of the funds to support the administration and operation of the food distribution program pursuant to 7 Code of Federal Regulations section 250.15.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that unnecessarily restricting the use of food distribution revolving funds places an undue strain on the Department of Education's budget.  This measure would align the use of the funds with the allowable costs in the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Distribution Programs.

     Your Committee has made a technical, nonsubstantive change for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1854, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1854, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair