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 H.B. No. 1054 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health (DOH) for reimbursements to providers of residential services for people with developmental disabilities.

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Judiciary's Office of the Public Guardian, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, The Arc in Hawaii, and several concerned individuals supported this measure. The Department of Human Services offered comment on this measure.

Your Committees are in agreement that those who care for Hawaii's developmentally disabled deserve the support they need to carry out this important responsibility. Your Committees have amended this bill to appropriate the sum of $1 to encourage and facilitate further discussion in the next Committee.

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 H.B. No. 1054, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1054, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.