STAND. COM. REP. NO.  319-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2296

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2296 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A SECOND DEPUTY DIRECTOR POSITION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the Department of Human Services to more effectively administer the Department's programs and better serve poor and vulnerable adults and children statewide by restoring the position of Second Deputy Director of the Department.

The Department of Human Services and Department of Human Resources Development supported this bill.

     Your Committees respectfully note that should your Committee on Finance choose to consider this measure, there are technical errors which should be corrected.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2296 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair