STAND. COM. REP. NO.  74-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1749

      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. 1749 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to restore three positions within the Office of Language Access to assist state and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii's language access law.

The Office of Language Access testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity and style.

     Should the House Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $130,000 for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 to restore the three positions within the Office of Language Access.

     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. 1749, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1749, 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