Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2154 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Health (DOH) to contract with providers of domiciliary homes and operators of apartment complexes that provide residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

DOH, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Arc in Hawaii, and Opportunities for the Retarded, Inc., supported this bill.

Your Committees recognize the value of residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities or mental retardation who are unable to live independently. Your Committees, however, respectfully request the Committee on Finance to analyze this bill's financial implications to the State. The State Council on Developmental Disabilities has indicated that the minimum appropriation necessary for the purposes of this measure is $1,798,200.

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. 2154 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.