STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1767

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 178
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
178 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTHY
     START,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate unspecified funds
for the operating expenses of the Healthy Start Program.

     The Department of Health and the Hawaii Family Support
Center testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting $1 for each year's appropriation for
          discussion purposes; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for 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 S.B. No.
178, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 178, H.D. 1.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair