STAND. COM. REP. NO. 372-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 3022
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 3022 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CHILD CARE
     CERTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to provide
mothers on public assistance the opportunity to receive child
care certification.

     PATCH submitted testimony in support of this bill. The
Office of Community Services submitted testimony in support of
the intent of this bill.  The Department of Human Resources
submitted testimony in opposition of this bill.

     Upon careful consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill to appropriate funds to provide income-qualified mothers,
who concurrently enroll in a program to receive a child
development associate credential, the opportunity to become
trained child providers. 

     Your Committee finds that DHS will pay for child care
training while on public assistance.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 3022, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
 
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Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3022, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Human Services
                                   and Housing,



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair