STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2824

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3083

       S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL ATHLETICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education to restore resources for school athletics and to increase the number of positions authorized for school athletics.  

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from United Public Workers Hawaii, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and three individuals.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that school athletics are an important part of a student's education.  They provide a healthy and beneficial outlet for students to develop the necessary traits and characteristics to become valuable members of society.  Your Committee further finds that in order to offer students the opportunity to participate in school athletics, the necessary athletic staff positions should be filled.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation from $2,000,000 to an unspecified amount; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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 S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3083, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair