STAND. COM. REP. NO.  702-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1756

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1756, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help provide the framework for the transition of the state's potentially disconnected youth to adulthood through the establishment of the enrichment, athletics, culture, and health (R.E.A.C.H.) initiative, including the appropriation of funds to and the creation of a revolving fund to support the administrative costs and staffing of the initiative.

The Department of Education, Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, REACH Out Hawaii, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and Department of the Attorney General provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1756, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair