Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1423, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a Commission on Fatherhood (Commission) to make recommendations and create programs and services that promote healthy family relationships between parents and children and that are father-friendly.

Parents and Children Together, Hawaii Coalition for Dads, and Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies testified in support of this measure. The Attorney General and Hawaii State PTSA supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that children that have healthy relationships with their fathers develop better socially and academically and are less likely to engage in risky behavior.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 1423, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1423, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.