STAND. COM. REP. NO. 776-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2273
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2273, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent child abuse and
neglect by appropriating $500,000 to the Hawaii Children's Trust
Fund from the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund.

     The Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the
Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Advisory Board, the Center for
Disability Studies, and the Good Beginnings Alliance testified in
support of this measure.  The Department of Health opposed this
measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriation to $1 for purposes of
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
 
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2273, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2273, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair