Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 45, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to extend the Statewide Interagency Task Force for one year, to develop a plan for coordination and expansion of services provided through Healthy Start to young children and their families.

The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Good Beginnings Alliance supported this measure.

Your Committees find that the interagency task force established by the 2003 Legislature has provided preliminary recommendations that detail specific objectives to improve outcomes for at-risk children age zero to five. Extending the task force for an additional year would allow plans for implementation to be developed, and assure that there is coordination and monitoring of the services provided to high-risk families with infants and newborns.

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. 45, S.D. 1, and recommend its adoption.