STAND. COM. REP. NO.  414-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2843

      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. 2843 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund to maintain levels of social services offered by or contracted through the Department of Human Services relating to child abuse and neglect that are essential to the public welfare.

Child & Family Service and three concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency, clarity, 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. 2843, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2843, 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