Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to the Office of Youth Services (OYS) of the Department of Human Services to continue to improve operations at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility.

OYS, Department of Health, and Hawaii Disability Rights Center testified in support of this bill. The Department of the Attorney General offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill 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. 2334, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2334, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.