STAND. COM. REP. NO. 970

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1079

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1079, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct and appropriate funds for the Office of Wellness and Resilience to collaborate with the Department of Human Services to, either directly or by contract, design, administer, and implement a program for trauma-informed organizational assessments and a training curriculum for the Department of Human Services Child Welfare Services Branch staff.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services; Office of Wellness and Resilience; State Council on Mental Health; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Hawaii Coalition for Child Protective Reform; Hawai‘i Youth Services Network; Early Childhood Action Strategy; Hawai‘i Primary Care Association; Hawai‘i Children's Action Network Speaks!; and three individuals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1079, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair