Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 227, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create an advisory board and planning task force for the Healthy Start Program.

Healthy Start is a statewide program that prevents child abuse and neglect, and promotes child health and development in newborns of families at risk for poor child outcomes. Your Committees finds that there is a need for the Department of Health and Healthy Start program providers to engage in a planning process that will enhance program effectiveness, and streamline reporting procedures for federal requirements that are often time consuming and may detract from the program's focus on intervention to prevent child abuse.

Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this concurrent resolution by deleting all references to an advisory board, and changing the title to read: "CREATING A PLANNING TASK FORCE FOR THE HEALTHY START PROGRAM."

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 concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 227, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 227, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.