STAND. COM. REP. NO. 463

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1499
                                        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. 1499 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RANDOLPH-SHEPPARD
     REVOLVING ACCOUNT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department
of Human Services (DHS) to expend moneys from the Randolph-
Sheppard Revolving Account (Account) to hire attorneys and to
allow $30,000 to be expended by the State Committee of Blind
Vendors.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the State Committee of Blind Vendors.  Testimony in
opposition was provided by the DHS.

     The intent of this measure is to empower the State's blind
vendors to assert and protect their rights under chapter 347,
Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to blind and visually
handicapped persons, especially as it relates to retaining their
newsstand concessions at the Honolulu International Airport.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

     (1)  Require the establishment of a subaccount in the
          Account to hold federal moneys;


 
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     (2)  Impose a limit of $30,000 on expenditures from the
          Account for the purposes of the Account;

     (3)  Require the Director of Human Services to transfer
          $30,000 yearly from the Account to an interest bearing
          account in a federally-insured financial institution;
          and

     (4)  Require the DHS to report on the financial activities
          of the Account to the legislature each year.

     Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for clarity and to reflect preferred drafting 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. 1499, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1499,
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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