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. 782, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation for the Family Health Services Division of the Department of Health to pay for early intervention services for infants and children.

The Department of Health, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Good Beginnings Alliance, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, and American Academy of Pediatrics testified in support of this bill.

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. 782, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.