STAND. COM. REP. NO.  511

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 918

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 918 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY INTERVENTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for procurement of a web-based data system for the Early Intervention Section and for related system maintenance and training costs.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Early Learning, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council, Hawaii Children's Action Network, Early Childhood Action Strategy, and an individual.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2090, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     Your Committee notes that the Department of Health testified at the public hearing on this measure that the estimated acquisition and start-up cost of a web-based early intervention data system is $1,500,000.  Annual operational and maintenance costs are estimated at $300,000.  Should your Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committee requests that it give consideration to these requested appropriation amounts.

     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 H.B. No. 918, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 918, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair