STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2810

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2510
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2510 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER BOARD ALLOWANCES FOR
     STUDENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that foster board
allowances will be paid to either the foster parents or to an
accredited institution of higher learning if the child is a
student there.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services (DHS).

     According to testimony of the DHS, the DHS has had
difficulty finding a foster parent willing to be a conduit for
the foster board allowance when a foster child is attending an
institution of higher education.  This measure requires the DHS
to make payments directly to the educational institution.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2510 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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