Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

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. 6, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the Executive and Legislative Branch of the United States of America to avoid privatization of Social Security. Specifically, this measure seeks to warn the Federal Government of possible financial and economic perils resulting from such a privatization of Social Security by stating,

The Hawaii Government Employees Association AFSCME Local 152 AFL-CIO, and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee recognizes that the future of Social Security is a complicated and expansive issue, and wishes to assert that it is not the intention of the members of your Standing Committee on Human Services in its limited scope as the relevant subject matter Committee to accuse or condemn the Federal Government, and further wishes to note that full study of this concurrent resolution was limited by a combination of Legislative time constraints and the absence of testimony by the Federal government.

Your Committee expresses its full respect and reverence for the Executive and Legislative Branch of our United States of America, and asserts that this measure has been passed in the hope of continuing dialogue regarding the future of Social Security.

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. 6, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.