STAND. COM. REP. NO.  985-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2855

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 2855, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DIVISION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation for the Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities Division, to continue to provide developmental disabilities services to eligible Compact of Free Association adults and children.

 

     Pursuant to article VII, section 9 of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 189 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to appropriate emergency funds of $500,000 in general funds needed for ongoing services provided by the Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities Division.

 

     The Department of Health and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Making the appropriation in an unspecified amount; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests its consideration of an appropriation amount of $500,000.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2855, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2855, S.D. 1, 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