HSCR1301

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1301

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2017

RE: S.B. No. 711

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 711, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to enter into contracts with third-party providers for family child interaction learning programs as part of a mixed-delivery early learning system to ensure school readiness for Hawaii's children prior to entering kindergarten.

The Executive Office on Early Learning, Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission, Hawaii Children's Action Network, Kamehameha Schools, and numerous individuals supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the appropriation is for the Executive Office on Early Learning to enter into contracts with third-party providers for family-child interaction learning organizations to develop and implement programs that support families to take an active role in the social, emotional, and cognitive development of their young children, as part of a mixed-delivery early childhood system;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 711, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 711, 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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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair