STAND. COM. REP. NO.  359-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2374

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2374 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the Office of Language Access from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Health.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Language Access, Hawai‘i Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, Congress on Visayan Organizations, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, United Filipino Council of Hawaii, Nursing Advocates & Mentors, Inc., Filipino American Citizens League, Oahu Filipino Community Council, Filipino Coalition for Solidarity, Inter-Agency Council for Immigrant and Refugee Services, Office of Language Access Advisory Council, Hawaii Interpreter Action Network, and the National Federation of Filipino American Associations Region 12 testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The Department of Human Resources Development provided comments.  

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2374 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair