STAND. COM. REP. NO.1265
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 1142
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1142 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation for early intervention services for the Early Intervention Section and Healthy Start Program to enable the Department of Health to fulfill the requirements of the Felix v. Cayetano consent decree as revised.
The Department of Health, Department of the Attorney General, HFSC Healthy Start, Good Beginnings Alliance, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, and Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting the general fund expenditure ceiling provisions;
(2) Adding a new section indicating that funding for fiscal biennium 2001-2003 is dependent upon a demonstrated need and is reflected in the General Appropriations Act of 2001; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and consistency.
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. 1142, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1142, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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