STAND. COM. REP. 784

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1429

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1429, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a Commission on Fatherhood (Commission) within the Office of the Governor to make recommendations and oversee policies for programs, services, and contracts that promote healthy family relationships between parents and children and that are father-friendly and inclusive.

The Office of Information Practices offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the open meetings provisions of the bill that were redundant of the applicable law under chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

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

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. 1429, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1429, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair