Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 27, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to continue to protect the health and welfare of Hawaii's children by appropriating funds for the Kapiolani Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) Program.

A member of the City Council of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Foster Parent Association, Kapiolani CARE Program, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resources supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 27, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 27, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.