STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1305

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 64
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Health and
Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 64 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A HAWAII STATE LAW
     ON EMPLOYMENT OF SEVERELY HANDICAPPED PERSONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to direct the Commission on
Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Human Services, and
the Department of Human Resources Development to conduct a
comprehensive review of Hawaii laws that provide for public
employment of severely handicapped persons.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Human Services, the State Planning Council on
Developmental Disabilities, the Commission on Persons with
Disabilities, the Hawaii State Coordinating Council on Deafness,
the Aloha State Association of the Deaf, and Goodwill Industries
Hawaii.  Oral testimony in support of the measure was presented
by Kahuli Advocates and a concerned citizen.  The Department of
Health testified in support of the intent of the measure.

     Your Committees find that Act 111, Session Laws of Hawaii
1980, was enacted to provide public employment opportunities for
people with disabilities.  This measure provides an opportunity
to revisit that law to enable persons with severe disabilities to
live an independent, productive life through public employment.


 
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     Your Committees also find that the consumer and family
member perspective will be invaluable to this study.
Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by
including a person with a disability and a family member of a
person with a disability as a part of the group conducting the
study.  A technical, nonsubstantive amendment was also made.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Health and Human Services
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 64, as amended herein,
and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 64, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Health and
                                   Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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