STAND. COM. REP. NO.  933-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2374

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2374 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the Office of Language Access from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Health.

 

     The Office of Language Access; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Hawaii Civil Rights Commission; Catholic Charities Hawaii; United Filipino Council of Hawaii; Oahu Filipino Community Council; Nursing Advocates & Mentors, Inc.; Filipino American Citizens League; and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments on this measure.

 

     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. 2374 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair