STAND. COM. REP. NO.  146-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1877

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1877 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to establish one permanent full-time equivalent program specialist position, within the Adult Protective and Community Services Branch of the Department to oversee the foster grandparent program and senior companion programs in Maui County.

A Maui County Council member and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation for the establishment of the program specialist position for Maui County to an unspecified amount;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2060, to encourage further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $45,348 for the purpose of establishing a permanent, full-time program specialist position to oversee Maui County's foster grandparent program and senior companion programs.

     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 H.B. No. 1877, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1877, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair