Bill Text: HI SB2579 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Extended Learning Opportunities Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2579 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2579-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2322

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2579

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2579 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create an extended learning opportunities program in the public schools.  This measure also makes an unspecified appropriation the Department of Education to establish an extended learning opportunities program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     The purpose of the extended learning opportunities program is to provide public school students with opportunities to expand student learning and to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities.  The program is intended to reduce risk-taking behaviors, provide positive developmental opportunities, and improve the academic performance of students.

 

     Your Committee finds that students who benefit from extended learning programs typically have both parents working or have single parents, resulting in young people left without adult contact or supervision at home following the regular school day.  After-school activities can provide young people with a positive alternative to spending time on the streets or being home alone in the afternoons.

     This measure allows nonprofit organizations and public-private partnerships to promote, fund, and sponsor extended learning opportunities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2579, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2579, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair