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.C.R. No. 2 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Human Services to conduct a study and recommend solutions for the current shortage of daycare providers, facilities, and services in the State.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the Department of Human Services to evaluate the daycare shortage in the State, particularly daycare for infants and toddlers, and to identify methods by which to increase the number of providers, facilities, and services without diminishing their quality.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 2, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 2, S.D. 1.