Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2948, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to statutorily establish the Public Health Nursing Services Program and prescribe its scope of services.

Testifying in support of this measure were the Department of Health, the Child Welfare Services State Advisory Council, Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, the Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, East Kauai Lions Club, and 21 individuals.

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the bill for style and clarity.

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. 2948, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2948, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.