STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1430

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 96

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. 96 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING THE JUMP START TASK FORCE ON THE CREATION OF THE JUMP START PROGRAM, ENCOURAGING EXPANSION OF THE PROGRAM TO SCHOOLS ON THE ISLANDS OF MAUI AND HAWAII, AND REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO CONTINUE THEIR SUPPORT OF THE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support and encourage the activities of the Jump Start Program.

     More specifically, this measure:

(1)  Commends the Jump Start Task Force for the creation of the Jump Start program;

(2)  Encourages the expansion of the Jump Start program for schools on the islands of Maui and Hawaii; and

(3)  Requests the Department of Education and the University of Hawaii Community Colleges to continue their support of the Jump Start program.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that the Jump Start program enables high school seniors to obtain credits for their high school diploma and receive career and technical education, while concurrently earning college credit.  Your Committee finds that, due to the success of the program on the islands of Oahu and Kauai, public high schools on the islands of Maui and Hawaii have expressed interest in participating in the Jump Start program.

     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. 96 and recommends its adoption.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair