STAND. COM. REP. NO.  145-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2163

      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. 2163 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH GANGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help reduce youth violence and delinquency by appropriating funds to the Department of Human Services to fund operational costs to provide therapeutic prevention and mental health programs including in-school centered group counseling for high risk youth.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186, Adult Friends for Youth, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Office of Youth Services and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu supported the intent of this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2060, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2163, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2163, 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