STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2917
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2163
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
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, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH GANGS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies to fund operational costs to provide therapeutic prevention and mental health programs for high risk youth.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Youth Services, Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, W. R. Farrington High School, Adult Friends for Youth, Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 1186, Parents and Children Together, The Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute, and thirteen individuals.
Your Committee finds that programs providing therapeutic prevention and mental health services for high risk youth are necessary components to preventing violence and juvenile delinquency associated with gang membership.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adopting language suggested by The Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute to add training and program evaluation to the types of services to be funded; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
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, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2163, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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________________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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