STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.846

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 974

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 974 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to:

(1) Increase the number of childcare subsidies given through the Preschool Open Doors Program;

(2) Pay administrative expenses; and

(3) Provide parent workshops to recipients of child care subsidies in each county.

Your Committee finds that early childhood education is critical to a child's cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development. This measure will provide greater early education opportunities for Hawaii's children by assisting low-income families to access high quality childcare.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the sums appropriated to unspecified amounts in order to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity.

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. 974, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 974, S.D. 1.

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

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair