Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3219, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed or certified under their jurisdiction and the vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in community-based facilities.

Your Committee finds that there is not a complete inventory of all the community-based facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services and this can make the processes of locating a vacancy difficult and time consuming.

Your Committee has amended this measure to incorporate the amendments proposed by the Department of Health to:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3219, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3219, S.D. 2.