STAND. COM. REP. NO. 125
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: H.B. No. 395
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 395 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Requiring the Office of Youth Services to coordinate a five-year safe places for youth pilot program;
(2) Establishing the position of coordinator for the pilot program and specifying the coordinator's duties and responsibilities;
(3) Developing and establishing a framework which allows youth under the age of eighteen to consent to accept services from the pilot program; and
(4) Appropriating funds for the coordinator position and residential options for the pilot program.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the amount appropriated for the pilot program coordinator position and temporary housing options for youth in crisis to an unspecified amount;
(2) Making the effective date July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Human Services respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $53,000 for fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 to the Office of Youth Services pilot program.
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 H.B. No. 395, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 395, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair |
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