STAND. COM. REP. NO.  671

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 206

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 206 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to promote self-determination and self-directed services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities by appropriating funds for a coordinator and operating expenses to support a statewide self-advocacy network for individuals with development disabilities.

 

     The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Disability and Communication Access Board, Hawaii Centers for Independent Living, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by making the State Council on Developmental Disabilities the expending agency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 206, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 206, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair