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 H.B. No. 735, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health (DOH) to provide sexual assault services.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Hawaii Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Community Alliance on Prisons, National Association of Social Workers, Kapiolani CARE Program, AlohaCare, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. DOH opposed this measure.

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 H.B. No. 735, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.