STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2881

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2578

       H.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2578, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the efficiency of government by eliminating the Advisory Council for Community Services.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that the Office of Community Services provides oversight over the Advisory Council for Community Services.  The Advisory Council no longer serves the programmatic focus of the Office of Community Services and has been defunct for nearly a decade with no members appointed to serve on the Council.  Thus, this measure eliminates the Council and streamlines government by eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2578, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair