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. 2347 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation for the healthy start purchase-of-service programs for home visiting programs.

Your Committee finds that appropriated funds will be expended before the end of the current fiscal year. Supplementary funding is needed in order to allow the Department of Health to fulfill its obligations under part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004.

Your Committee has made 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. 2347, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2347, S.D. 1.