STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1103

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 850

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 850, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for:

(1) One full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent complex area compassionate Ko‘olaupoko trauma-informed resource teacher position; and

(2) One full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent district educational specialist II position, to be located within the office of the Castle-Kahuku Complex Area Superintendent.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Wisdom Circles Oceania, Pacific American Foundation, and ten individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Education, Office of Wellness and Resilience, State Council on Mental Health, and one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Formally establishing the Trauma-Informed Education Program as a pilot program within the Department of Education;

(2) Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts; and

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

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. 850, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 850, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair