STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1218-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 3099

      S.D. 1

      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 Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3099, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide safe, high-quality educational activities during out-of-school hours for students attending public schools from grades kindergarten through twelve by:

     (1)  Establishing the Hawaii Three to Six Out-of-school Program and Hawaii Three to Six Out-of-school Program Special Fund; and

     (2)  Appropriating funds for this purpose.

The Department of Education, State Public Charter School Commission, Office of Youth Services, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, Pioneering Healthy Communities – Honolulu, Hawaii Afterschool Alliance, Parents and Children Together, Hui for Excellence in Education, High Tech Youth Network, Hawaii Youth Services Network, After-school All-stars Hawaii, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments, including by correcting the number of public charter schools referenced in its purpose section.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3099, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3099, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair