Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 237 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to government operations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting substantive provisions to give the Department of Human Services jurisdiction to regulate Adult Residential Care Homes in the State.

Your Committee recommends that this measure be recommitted following second reading so that a public hearing may properly be held on its substantive contents.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the action to report out S.B. No. 237, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 237, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, for further consideration.