STAND. COM. REP. NO. 60

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1288

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1288 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide emergency funding from the emergency and budget reserve fund to permit the awarding of grants to specified organizations to maintain levels of programs determined to be essential to education, public health, and public welfare.

     More specifically, this measure amends Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, to provide additional appropriations from the emergency and budget reserve fund, extend the lapse date of appropriations in Act 191 until June 30, 2012, and make technical corrections to Act 191.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from: Governor Neil Abercrombie; Rodney A. Maile, Administrative Director of the Courts; Liz Ann Salvador, Chair, State Council on Developmental Disabilities; The Institute for Human Services; Nanci Kreidman, CEO, Domestic Violence Action Center; Adriana Ramelli, Executive Director, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center; Karen M. Holt, Executive Director, Molokai'i Community Service Council; Veronika Geronimo, Executive Director, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Susan Doyle, President Aloha United Way; Tom Smith, Community Children's Council; Deborah L.K. Spencer-Chun, President and CEO, Adult Friends for Youth; M. Nalani Fujimori Kaina, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; Ivalee Sinclair, Chair, Special Education Advisory Council; Sandra J. Yoro, Executive Director, Special Education Center of Hawaii; Anastasia Keller-Collins, Easter Seals Disability Services; Wanda Villareal, President, Hawaii Waiver Providers Association; Laura Robertson, President, Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc.; L. Dew Kaneshiro, Interim Executive Director, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii; Joan Naguwa, President, The Children's Alliance of Hawaii; Tasha Kama; Ramoda Anand; Patricia McManaman, Interim Director, Department of Human Services; Stella Wong, Vice President of Programs, Catholic Charities of Hawaii; Blueprint for Change; Gail Breakey, Director, Hawaii Family Support Institute; Elisabeth Chun, Executive Director, Good Beginnings Alliance; Ed Flores, Executive Director, Hawaii Family Law Clinic; and Beth Giesting, Chief Executive Officer, Hawaii Primary Care Association.

     Your Committee finds that the technical corrections made by this measure to Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, are necessary to carry out the Legislature's intent to appropriate moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to specific organizations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adopting the recommendations of the Governor to:

          (A)  Repeal Section 24 of Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, which appropriated $2,000,000 from the emergency budget and reserve fund for QUEST health care payments for adult dental care; and

          (B)  Add two new sections to Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, that appropriate:

(i)  $1,900,000 out of the emergency budget and reserve fund to the Hawaii Primary Care Association for the provision of adult dental care at federally qualified health centers; and

(ii)  $100,000 out of the emergency and budget reserve fund for Maui Community College, University of Hawaii, for the adult dental care program;

(2)  Amending section 31 of Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, by designating the specific organizations receiving domestic violence services funding to be expended by the Judiciary and specifying the amounts that each organization is to receive;

(3)  Clarifying or correcting the name of several organizations receiving funding under Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010; and

(4)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1288, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1288, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair