STAND. COM. REP. NO. 264

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 127

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 127 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING A GRANT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DEAF CENTER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make a grant to establish and operate a comprehensive deaf center.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Aloha State Association of the Deaf and twenty-one individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Services and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the creation of a comprehensive deaf center will promote individual growth, social awareness, productivity, and equality by empowering deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind persons to be full participants in Hawaii's communities.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 127 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 Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair