STAND. COM. REP. NO.  309-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2519

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2519 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO EARLY LEARNING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support early learning in the State by making an unspecified appropriation for, among other things, the Early Learning Council and the Governor's Early Childhood Coordinator to further develop and implement the components of a comprehensive early childhood system.

The Governor, Department of Education, Department of Human Services, Early Learning Council, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Special Education Advisory Council, the 17 Community Children's Councils, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Good Beginnings Alliance provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying an appropriation amount of $500,000; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2519, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2519, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair