STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2073

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2226

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2226 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Commission on Fatherhood.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Human Services and the State Commission on Fatherhood. 

     Your Committee finds that there is a renewed understanding of the unique importance of fathers in the lives of their children, within families, and in communities, and that the State Commission on Fatherhood plays an important role in promoting healthy family relationships between parents and children.    

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the appropriation to come from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds rather than from general funds; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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. 2226, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2226, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair