STAND. COM. REP. NO.  419-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2541

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2541 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRACT PROPOSALS FOR CHILD CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the availability and accessibility of child care in Hawaii by allowing operators of child care programs required to be licensed under section 346-161, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to submit contract proposals, in response to a request for proposals, even if the operators are not yet licensed.

The Department of Human Services supported this bill.  The State Procurement Office supported this measure with amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 2541, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2541, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair