STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2920

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2818

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2818, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish and fund a summer learning coordinator position within the Department of Education to coordinate school-based summer programs.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, Malama Kauai, HE‘E Coalition, Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks!, Hawaii Afterschool Alliance, CARE Arts and Recreation Education Services, and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that there are various unconnected summer learning programs offered by a myriad of offices and program managers, which creates overlapping services and challenges in forming partnerships with community organizations. Your Committee further finds that creating a summer learning coordinator position will help to establish a cohesive network of summer learning opportunities that can identity redundancies and gaps in summer learning programs while also helping students find and enroll in the programs that best fit their needs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 2818, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2818, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair