STAND. COM. REP. NO.  52-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2035

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2035 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to be expended by the Judiciary for purchase of service contracts for domestic violence programs.

 

     The Judiciary, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, PHOCUSED, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Child & Family Service, Parents and Children Together, Ala Kuola, Molokai Community Service Council, Women Helping Women, Hawaii Women's Coalition, and a few concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Domestic Violence Action Center commented on this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Inserting an unspecified appropriation amount; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2035, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2035, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair