Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 13, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the Governor to establish a statewide interagency task force to develop an implementation plan for the coordination and expansion of services provided to young children and their families.

The Department of Human Services, Parents and Children Together, and Blueprint for Change testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure. The Judiciary submitted comments.

Your Committees find that family problems have become more complex and severe. The Healthy Start program has been essential in providing services to at-risk families.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 13, S.D. 1, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.