STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1161

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1230

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1230, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Office of Youth Services to establish commercial enterprise vocational programs for young adults.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that requiring young adults to possess a high school diploma or its equivalent as a prerequisite to participating in the commercial enterprise vocational programs of the Office of Youth Services may be too restrictive and create unnecessary barriers to promoting the self-sufficiency of the persons those programs are meant to assist.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the requirement that young adults participating in commercial enterprise vocational programs possess a high school diploma or equivalent;

(2) Changing the appropriations from unspecified amounts to $50,000;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(4) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1230, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1230, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair