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. 2725, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue the provision of necessary services and support to prevent child abuse in Hawaii by appropriating funds to the Healthy Start Program.

Your Committee finds that the Healthy Start Program uses home visits to help high-risk families change abusive and neglectful parenting behaviors and learn positive, nonviolent parenting techniques. Healthy Start provides family support, training, and modeling of positive parenting skills to help families promote their child's healthy development and to reduce the risk for child abuse or neglect.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 2725, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2725, S.D. 2.