STAND. COM. REP. 3053

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2796

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the emergency budget reserve fund for various health and human services programs.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Judiciary, Child Welfare Services, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Association of Social Workers, the Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Hawaii Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Straub Clinic and Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, Kapiolani Medical Center, Queen's Medical Center, Hana Community Health Center, Hale Mahaolu, Children's Alliance of Hawaii, Na Lei Wili AHEC, Hale Ipu Kukui Alaka'I, Hawaii Youth Services Network, University of Hawaii, Catholic Charities of Hawaii, Self-Help Housing Corporation of Hawaii, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, Moiliili Community Center, Waikiki Community Center, Adult Friends for Youth, Hawaii FI-DO Service and Therapy Dogs, Hawaii Primary Care Association, The Digital Ride, Legal Aid Society, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Aloha Care, and Molokai Occupational Center. Testimony in opposition was submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance and Department of Human Services. The Department of Health submitted comments.

Your Committees find that moneys are urgently needed to maintain levels of programs that are essential to the public's health, safety, and welfare.

Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting specific and appropriate dollar amounts to be expended by the respective departments and agencies.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair