STAND. COM. REP. NO.  803-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1346

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1346, 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 support the positive development of youth by:

(1)  Requiring the Office of Youth Services to implement a positive youth development program to establish, support, and enhance after-school and school break programs focused on positive youth development, and evaluate the efficacy and impact of the programs; and

(2)  Appropriating funds to establish and operate the positive youth development program.

The Office of Youth Services commented on this measure.

     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. 1346, 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