STAND. COM. REP. NO.  464-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2226

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2226, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of Language Access to establish three full-time equivalent permanent positions to assist state agencies and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii's language access law.

 

     The Office of Language Access; Catholic Charities Hawaii; Hawaii Filipino Lawyers Association; and several concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $200,000 for the purpose of establishing three full-time equivalent permanent positions within the Office of Language Access.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2226, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2226, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair