Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 3215 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the term of the Children of Incarcerated Parents Task Force, and to appropriate funds for administrative costs and reimbursement of the travel expenses incurred by members of the task force.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services, the Office of Youth Services, Community Alliance on Prisons, and Blueprint for Change.

The Children of Incarcerated Parents Task Force was established by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 128, Regular Session 2005, to develop programs to aid children of incarcerated parents, to strengthen these families, and to break the cycle of crime and violence within them. Your Committee finds that extending the term of the Children of Incarcerated Parents Task Force is necessary in order for the task force to accomplish its important objectives.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3215 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.