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. 2630, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the continued operation of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and apartment complexes for persons with developmental disabilities.

Your Committee finds that previous legislation provided funding for fiscal year 2005-2006, but none for fiscal year 2006-2007. Continued financial support for these facilities is needed to retain viable residential options for the developmentally disabled.

Your Committee has amended this measure by leaving the appropriation amount unspecified in order to facilitate further discussion of the matter.

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. 2630, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2630, S.D. 2.