STAND. COM. REP. NO. 483

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1036
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1036 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a Disability and
Communication Access Board (Board).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, Commission on Persons with
Disabilities, Hawaii State Coordinating Council on Deafness,
Architectural Access Committee, Aloha State Association of the
Deaf, and a private citizen.

     This is an administration measure which assigns the Board
several existing statutory duties relating to persons with
disabilities, including replacing the:

     (1)  Architectural Access Committee, the Commission on
          Persons with Disabilities regarding consultation with
          the Housing and Community Development Corporation of
          Hawaii for purposes of the housing alteration revolving
          loan fund; and

     (2)  Department of Transportation for purposes of selling
          removable windshield placards for disabled persons.


 
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This measure repeals the Architectural Access Committee, Hawaii
State Coordinating Council on Deafness, and Commission on Persons
with Disabilities.

     According to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities,
this measure provides for a more efficient coordination of State
efforts to comply with disability access and civil rights laws. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1036, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1036,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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