STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2037

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2347

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2347 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the Department of Health with additional funds to continue Healthy Start services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Hawaii Medical Association.

Your Committee finds it necessary to ensure that children, from birth to three years of age, with developmental delay or biological or environmental risk, and their families receive early intervention services. In order to continue these services at the present level, a ceiling increase in the Early Intervention Special Fund is needed. Your Committee finds that this appropriation is necessary to ensure that this program is funded for the whole fiscal year.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2347 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair