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 S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure uninterrupted services for developmentally delayed, or biologically or environmentally at-risk children (from birth to 3 years of age) by making an emergency appropriation of $3,200,928 for fiscal year 2005-2006, for early intervention services as mandated under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004.

The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and Hawaii Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association supported this bill.

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 S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.