STAND. COM. REP. NO.  75-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1740

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1740 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure the effective implementation and provision of language access assistance services in the State by government agencies and state-funded entities by amending the amount of funds appropriated for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 during the Regular Session of 2013 for the establishment of the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and the multilingual website pilot project.

The Office of Language Access supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     Your Committee respectfully requests the House Committee on Finance to consider the following appropriation amounts in its deliberations:

(1)  $300,000 for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 to establish a Statewide Language Access Resource Center within the Office of Language Access; and

(2)  $150,000 for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 to establish a multilingual website pilot project.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1740, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1740, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair