STAND. COM. REP. NO. 513

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 923

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 923 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the term of office of the members of the State Commission on Fatherhood from two years to four years and limits the number of terms that each member may serve.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Commission on Fatherhood.

     Your Committee finds that participation in monthly State Commission on Fatherhood meetings has been severely inhibited by the present two-year term limits.  The State Commission on Fatherhood has also found it difficult to make timely voting-member replacement appointments.  Your Committee further finds that increasing the term of office for State Commission on Fatherhood members will provide for institutional knowledge and continuity, and will help facilitate the functioning of the Commission.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 923 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

____________________________

SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair