CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO.44

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 2000

                            RE:   H.B. No. 2273
                                  H.D. 2
                                  S.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 2273, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

    "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S TRUST
    FUND,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to make an appropriation to the
Hawaii Children's Trust Fund (Trust Fund) from the Hawaii Tobacco
Settlement Special Fund.

     Your Committee on Conference recognizes that it is more cost
effective for the State to allocate funds toward child abuse
prevention rather than child abuse treatment.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by
replacing the $2 appropriation with $250,000, provided that the
Department of Health submit a detailed financial report of the

 
 
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Trust Fund no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the Regular Session of 2001.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your
Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your
Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2273, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 2273, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members:         

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE          ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Co-Chair     DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Co-Chair



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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair           MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Co-
                                   Chair



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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair