STAND. COM. REP. NO.1465
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 429
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 429 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BLINDNESS SKILL TRAINING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $25,000 in order to match $225,000 in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration's Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind grant.
The appropriation is to fund four rehabilitation teacher positions in the Department of Human Services who will teach blindness skills that enable individuals age fifty-five or older who are legally blind or who have severe visual impairment to live as independently as possible.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of Human Services and one individual.
Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriated amount of $25,000 to a blank amount for purposes of promoting continuing discussion;
(2) Clarifying that the appropriation is made as a match for federal funding;
(3) Clarifying the purpose of the appropriation by adding language in section 2 to specify that appropriated funds are to support four rehabilitation teacher positions in the Department of Human Services;
(4) Correcting the expending agency to read the "Department of Human Services"; and
(5) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
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 H.B. No. 429, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 429, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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