STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2846

      S.D. 2

      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 Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2846, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs 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.

     Your Committee notes that this measure has an effective date of July 1, 2050, which will facilitate further discussion as this measure moves through your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Finance.

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

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, 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 S.B. No. 2846, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2846, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair