STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3346

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2109

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2109, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a five-year evidence-based physical-activity and nutritional-education pilot program within the A+ program of the Department of Education.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Hui for Excellence in Education, Kaho'omiki and Afterschool Alliance, three Kaho'omiki individuals, the Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition, and four individuals.  Written comments on the measure were received from the Department of Human Services.

     Your Committee finds that this measure presents an excellent opportunity to positively affect the lives of some twenty thousand elementary school children in this State each and every year that the pilot program is in operation.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2109, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair