STAND. COM. REP. NO. 201

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 673

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 673 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide emergency funding for the Department of Health by increasing the authorized special fund appropriation in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2004 for early intervention services by $981,719.

The Department of Health, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, Good Beginnings Alliance, and the Academy of Pediatrics, Hawaii Chapter, supported this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 673 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair