STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2517

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2456
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2456 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BLUEPRINT FOR
     CHANGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
Blueprint for Change program and existing Neighborhood Places.

     Your Committee finds that families at risk of child abuse
need services and resources that are both within the community
and at a physical site where parents and children can take "time
out" or learn new parenting skills that better enable the family
to cope with their responsibilities.  A small beginning has been
made in these efforts in West Hawaii and Waipahu.  However,
funding continues to be a pressing need.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the dollar
amounts in the appropriation section and adding the proviso that
moneys must be matched by private or federal sources.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2456, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2456, S.D. 1.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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