Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2340 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation for early intervention services for fiscal year 2005-2006.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Health has a critical need for additional funding for early intervention services for the fiscal year 2005-2006. Existing funds will be expended before the end of the fiscal year due to increased costs from expansion in the purchase-of-service programs, as mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2340, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1.