STAND. COM. REP. NO.  869

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1377

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1377, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Support a well-functioning early intervention system of services for children from birth to age three; and

 

(2)  Improve the social-emotional and behavioral outcomes for children from birth to age five,

 

by appropriating funds to develop the specifications and pricing, and an implementation plan, for a web-based data system in the Department of Health (DOH) Early Intervention Section; and for operating expenses and the establishment of a coordinator position in the DOH Special Health Needs Branch to improve social-emotional and behavioral outcomes for children.

 

     The Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, Project Vision Hawaii, and Easter Seals Hawaii supported this measure.  An individual opposed this measure.  DOH and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities provided comments.

 

 

     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. 1377, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair