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.R. No. 140 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Human Services to facilitate an audit of each agency that receives Head Start funding from the State.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from one individual. The Department of Human Services submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure requests the Department of Human Services to facilitate an examination of the state agencies receiving Head Start funding in order to ensure adequate policies and procedures and proper expenditures of state funds.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with provisions requesting the Department of Human Services, in conjunction with the Head Start Collaboration Office, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and the Department of Health, to perform a management, operational, and financial review of Early Head Start and Head Start to determine resources and to identify ways to improve the effectiveness of services for eligible children.

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.R. No. 140, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 140, S.D. 1.