STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2717

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3019
                                        S.D. 1




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. 3019 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate specified funds
for the Healthy Start program.

     Your Committee finds that Healthy Start, piloted by the
Legislature in 1984, has proven to be one of the most effective
of the current child welfare reform efforts in Hawaii.  Your
Committee further finds that Healthy Start is currently one of
the most promising services to reduce child abuse in the future.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
appropriation figure to a blank amount for the purpose of
continued discussion of the matter.  Your Committee has also
amended this measure by specifying that appropriations for the
Healthy Start program must be matched by private sources,
Medicaid, and other federal funding 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.

 
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3019, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3019, S.D. 1.

                                 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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