CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 158-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: S.B. No. 2469
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam and Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii to maintain levels of programs determined to be essential to education, public health and public welfare.
Your Committee on Conference finds that in 1999, the Legislature established the emergency and budget reserve fund as a temporary supplemental source of funding for the State of Hawaii in times of emergency, economic downturn, or unforeseen reduction in revenues. As set forth in section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, specific purposes for the fund include the maintaining of levels of programs determined to be essential to public health, safety, welfare, and education. Specifically prohibited from appropriation allowances is funding items in collective bargaining contracts.
Your Committee also finds that difficult economic times and declining tax revenues have resulted in budget cuts for all state services, and that some of the most vulnerable and needy members of the community will be the hardest hit by the reduction in services. Your Committee further finds that funding of certain programs and entities such as community centers, domestic violence shelters, the Shelter Plus program and housing placement services allows members of the community to continue working as opposed to being forced to quit their jobs due to economic downturn or personal difficulties. Funding programs such as respite services, the Kupuna Care Program, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, the Hawaii Family Law Clinic and the employment core services of the Office of Community Services promotes the hiring or retention of current staff positions, all of which in turn keeps our citizens working and fosters a stronger economy.
Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating the following:
(1) Respite Services $200,000
(2) Healthy Start Program $1,500,000
(3) Senior Centers
Catholic Charities Hawaii $350,000
Kapahulu Center $300,000
Moiliili Community Center $150,000
Waikiki Community Center $150,000
(4) Kupuna Care Program $3,000,000
(5) Aging and Disability Resource Center $100,000
(6) Developmental Disabilities Medicaid
Waiver Program $1,500,000
(7) Mental Health Services $1,500,000
(8) Partnerships in Community Living Program
$150,000
(9) Substance Abuse Treatment $1,400,000
(10) Healthy Aging Partnerships Program $125,000
(11) Waianae District Comprehensive
Health and Hospital Board,
Incorporated $332,000
(12) HIV/AIDS related services $270,000
(13) Housing First pilot program $1,000,000
(14) Meals for the elderly for Kupuna Care $500,000
(15) Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive
Family Services $500,000
(16) HMSA's Keiki Care $600,000
(17) Windward Oahu Spouse Abuse Shelter $200,000
(18) Blueprint for Change for Neighborhood
Place Walk-in Centers $200,000
(19) Hawaii Immigrant Health Initiative Program $550,000
(20) Statewide domestic violence shelters $762,500
(21) Hale Mahaolu for personal care services $210,000
(22) Shelter Plus Care Program $200,000
(23) Adult Dental Care $2,000,000
(24) Outstationed eligibility worker services $100,000
(25) Outreach services $80,000
(26) Outreach services to locate
uninsured children $44,636
(27) Child care subsidies $800,000
(28) General Assistance Program $1,000,000
(29) Adult Friends for Youth $200,000
(30) Domestic Violence Shelters $1,000,000
(31) Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii $200,000
(32) Legal Aid Society of Hawaii $720,000
(33) Hawaii Family Law Clinic $282,000
(34) Catholic Charities Hawaii for
intra-familial sex assault services $150,000
(35) Children's Alliance of Hawaii, Inc. $150,000
(36) Office of Community Services for
employment core services $400,000
(37) YMCA of Honolulu for Weed and Seed Program $75,000
(38) Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and
Children for the Sex Abuse
Treatment Center $466,000
(39) Families for R.E.A.L. $300,000
Your Committee has also amended this measure by deleting the fee provision attached to the QUEST adult dental appropriation, clarifying the legal names of entities, and making technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes for purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
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ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Co-Chair |