STAND. COM. REP. NO. 125

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 428

       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 Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 428 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to human services.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language that appropriates funds for the Blueprint for Change project to continue to deliver diversion and child protective services to target families, and for additional neighborhood places in Waimanalo, Oahu, and Kauai.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 428, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 428, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, for further consideration.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair