STAND. COM. REP. NO. 491

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 630
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to
which was referred H.B. No. 630 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL FUND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a Healthy Start
Special Fund (Fund):

     (1)  Into which shall be deposited a percentage of the
          annual appropriations made to each of four departments;
          and

     (2)  To be used for programs relating to preconceptual,
          perinatal, early intervention, and family services to
          age five.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Family Support
Center, and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies submitted testimony in
support of this measure.

     The Department of Budget and Finance submitted testimony in
opposition to this measure, specifically opposing:

     (1)  The earmarking of general funds for a specific program;

     (2)  Lack of a clear link between the source of funding and
          the beneficiaries of the program funded; and


 
 
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     (3)  The ability of the program created to be self-
          sustaining and fully fund the level of program
          activities and costs. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Providing that the Fund created shall be a line item in
          the budget;

     (2)  Designating that the Fund be funded by percentages of
          the annual appropriations from the Departments of
          Health, Human Services, Education, and Public Safety;

     (3)  Providing that the funding from each department be
          designated and deposited prior to the release of
          appropriations to that department; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 630, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 630, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Finance.

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

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair       DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair