STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1533

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 132

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 132 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO TO ESTABLISH A FORMAL ASSOCIATION WITH AND PROVIDE SUFFICIENT FUNDING FOR THE RISE 21ST CENTURY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the University of Hawaii at Hilo to establish a formal association with the RISE 21st Century After School Program.  In addition, the measure requests the University of Hawaii at Hilo to provide in its budget funding for the RISE program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from five individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that youth in the Keaukaha and Panaewa Hawaiian Homestead areas face significant challenges including exposure to drugs, alcohol, abuse, poverty, suicide, and domestic violence.  A relationship between RISE and the University of Hawaii will further promote the RISE program, help offset damaging influences to Hawaiian youth, and provide those youth with the opportunity to recognize their potential for completing higher education and engaging in successful career opportunities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Removing the request that the University of Hawaii at Hilo provide funding for the RISE 21st Century After School Program and making a corresponding amendment to the title; and

 

(2)  Clarifying the formal relationship requested to be established between RISE and the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 132, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 132, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair