Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2274, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to support the case management program of the Maui AIDS Foundation.

The Maui AIDS Foundation, two members of the Maui County Council, and four concerned individuals testified in support of the bill. While taking no official position on the measure, the Attorney General did raise constitutional concerns about the bill as presently drafted.

Your Committee has amended the bill by:

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. 2274, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2274, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.