STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1699

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1063

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1063, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the previously authorized funding for the Operation About Face program.

     Specifically, this measure authorizes the Department of Defense to expend interdepartmentally transferred funds from the Department of Human Services for the program.  The funding amount is increased from $4,700,000 to $7,900,000 in item I-20 of section 3 of Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, as amended.  The Program will provide services to youth from age eleven to young adulthood in English, mathematics, and basic life skills.

Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Defense.

     Your Committee finds that this measure, which is recommended by the Governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the State Constitution, will allow the Department of Defense to receive and expend all the federal temporary assistance to needy families funds received from the Department of Human Services for the Hawaii national guard's Operation About Face statewide family of programs.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1063, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair