STAND. COM. REP. NO. 984

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 597

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 597 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to makes various amendments and name changes to the State's developmental disabilities law.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Disability and Communication Access Board.

Your Committee finds that the passage of P.L. 106-402, Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, which President Clinton signed on October 30, 2000, requires conforming amendments to state law. This measure would accomplish that purpose.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make a number of clarifying and technical amendments to conform more closely to the reauthorization of the federal law and to strengthen the Council's role and activities in systems advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 597, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 597, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair