Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 3068 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various health and human services programs, including grants, for FY 2004-2005.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Judiciary, University of Hawaii and its Bridge to Hope program, two programs of Catholic Charities Hawaii Family Services, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Child Welfare Services, and the Sex Abuse Treatment Center. Testimony in opposition was received from the Departments of Health and Human Services.

Your Committees find that moneys are urgently needed to maintain levels of programs that are essential to the public's health, safety, and welfare.

Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting language that would appropriate unspecified amounts for unspecified programs under the Departments of Health and Human Services.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3068, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.