STAND. COM. REP. NO. 525-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2163

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2163 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Executive Office on Early Learning for additional operational costs, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs.

The Executive Office on Early Learning, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Children's Action Network, Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, Kamehameha Schools, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making the appropriation and the allocations unspecified amounts;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050; and

(3) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider an appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 for additional operational costs of the Executive Office on Early Learning.

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 H.B. No. 2163, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2163, 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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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair