STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1557

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 63
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Public
Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 63
entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE
     WITHIN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TO DEVELOP A MASTER PLAN FOR
     THE OFFICE OF YOUTH SERVICES AND REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO
     CONDUCT A MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM AUDIT OF THE OPERATIONS OF
     THE OFFICE OF YOUTH SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution, as received, is
to:

     (1)  Establish a Task Force to develop a master plan for the
          Office of Youth Services (OYS); and

     (2)  Request the Legislative Auditor to conduct a management
          and program audit of the operations of OYS.

     OYS and the Juvenile Justice Statewide Advisory Council
testified in opposition to this measure.  The Judiciary and the
University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Social Work commented on
this measure.

     Your Committees are frustrated because OYS has not fulfilled
its statutory mandates governing its office because of a lack of
resources.  While this measure prescribes a Task Force and an
audit, your Committees find that a Task Force is duplicative of
current efforts and an audit is not beneficial at this time.

 
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Therefore, your Committees have amended this measure by deleting
its substance and replacing it with a similar measure that:

     (1)  Requests OYS to revise its strategic plan and report to
          the Legislature on:

          (A)  The next steps toward achieving OYS's vision;

          (B)  The necessary resources to reach this vision; and

          (C)  Its relationship with other youth-serving agencies
               in its mission to serve all youth, and not just
               youth in the juvenile justice system;

     (2)  Amends the title to read, "REQUESTING THE OFFICE OF
          YOUTH SERVICES TO REVISE ITS STRATEGIC PLAN;"

     (3)  Directs OYS to collaborate with designated State
          agencies, the Judiciary, the counties, and private,
          youth-serving agencies in revising the strategic plan;

     (4)  Requests OYS to seek input on the revised strategic
          plan from the communities that are affected by the
          strategic plan;

     (5)  Directs OYS to submit its findings and recommendations
          to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2000;
          and

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Human Services and Housing and Public Safety and
Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 63,
as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No.
63, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Human Services
                                   and Housing and Public Safety
                                   and Military Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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NESTOR GARCIA, Chair               DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair