STAND. COM. REP. NO.  705-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1576

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1576, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER CARE SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the insufficiency of the current monthly board payment for foster care for children by increasing the rate of the monthly board payment made to foster boarding home parents, group homes, and child care institutions and appropriating funds for this purpose.  

 

     Hawaii Youth Opportunities Initiative, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Hale Kipa, Family Programs Hawaii, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services and Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice commented on this measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1576, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair