STAND. COM. REP. NO. 673

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1036
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1036, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a Disability and
Communication Access Board.

     Your Committee finds that statutory provisions regarding
persons with disabilities including provisions on architectural
access, windshield placards for disabled drivers, communication
with the hearing impaired, deaf, or blind and their corresponding
civil rights, are scattered in various parts of the law, and
administered by different agencies.  This bill consolidates
several agencies previously working separately on services for
the disabled and streamlines the coordination of all compliance
efforts by bringing these considerations under the purview of a
single Disability and Communication Access Board.  Your Committee
finds that this is a more efficient method of dealing with the
issues affecting the disabled.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical
nonsubstantive amendments.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1036, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1036, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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