STAND. COM. REP. NO.  415

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 526

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 526 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow certain public assistance recipients who provide full-time, at-home child care to children two years-of-age or under, to receive a percentage of the child care subsidy the State would otherwise pay for child care.

     The Attorney General and Department of Human Services (DHS) provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Removing provisions that exclude participating households from receiving additional child care subsidies;

     (2)  Removing provisions that a participating household will not be required to forfeit other public assistance;

     (3)  Inserting an appropriation instead of requiring DHS to use available funds; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services & Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 526, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 526, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services & Housing,

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair