STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3913

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2141

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove outdated reporting requirements for the Department of Human Services, including the Office of Youth Services.

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

Your Committees find that updating the annual reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services and its attached agencies, such as the Office of Youth Services, will reduce administrative burdens and increase governmental efficiencies. Your Committees further find that existing law imposes certain reporting requirements on various state agencies that have not been updated for some time. Your Committees also find 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 legal requirements and reduce confusion by removing these unnecessary reporting requirements.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2141, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair