Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1423, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the State Commission on Fatherhood to make recommendations and oversee policies to create programs, services, and contracts that promote healthy family relationships between parents and children and that are father-friendly and inclusive.

Parents and Children Together, Hawaii Coalition for Dads, and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii supported this bill. The Department of Health and Hawaii Congress of Parents, Teachers, Student Association supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

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. 1423, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1423, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.