Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 95 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Blueprint for Change program and existing neighborhood places.

The Blueprint for Change, Kapiolani Child Protection Center, Neighborhood Place of Kona, Good Beginnings Alliance, Family Support Services of West Hawaii, Communities in Schools of Hawaii Project, Waipahu Elementary, Hawaiian Electric Ohana Center, Waipahu UCC Preschool, Communities in Schools-HI Project of YMCA, Way of Truth Church, and concerned citizens submitted testimonies in support of this bill. The Department of Human Services and Office of Youth Services supported the intent of the bill.

Your Committee finds that the continual existence and funding of neighborhood places under the Blueprint For Change Program is in the best interest of abused and neglected children and their families.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the amount of the appropriation to $1 to facilitate further discussion.

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. 95, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 95, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.