STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2663

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2446
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2446, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION
     OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for
programs and services for the protection of children and
families.

     Your Committee finds that a comprehensive strategy comprised
of community-based programs is necessary to prevent child abuse.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by retaining the
programs and services related to the Hawaii Children's Trust
Fund, Healthy Start, and Blueprint for Change.  Your Committee
has deleted the others.

     Your Committee has also amended this measure by specifying
that appropriations are conditioned upon matching funds from
private and federal sources.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2446, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
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Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2446, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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