STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3287

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2141

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove outdated or obsolete reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services and its Office of Youth Services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that existing law imposes certain reporting requirements on various state agencies that have not been updated for some time. Your Committee further finds that certain reporting requirements for the Department of Human Services relating to psychotropic medications and federal financial assistance and health care programs, and for certain programs overseen by its Office of Youth Services, are obsolete and no longer necessary. This measure will clarify the law and reduce confusion by removing these unnecessary reporting requirements.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making it effective upon its approval; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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. 2141, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair