Bill Text: HI HB1354 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Keiki Caucus; Healthy Start; Enhanced Healthy Start; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1354 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1354-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1302

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1354

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1354, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the healthy start and the enhanced healthy start programs.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

(1)  Appropriates general funds in the amount of $7,740,000 for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, to maintain the current support services provided by the healthy start program;

 

(2)  Appropriates temporary assistance for needy families funds in the amount of $1,660,000 for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 to maintain current support services provided by the healthy start program; and

 

(3)  Appropriates temporary assistance for needy families funds in the amount of $3,800,000 for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, for the enhanced healthy start program to hire a child development specialist or clinical specialist and to train healthy start and enhanced healthy start providers to continue delivering services that are currently provided.

 

     Your Committee received four written comments on this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the healthy start and enhanced healthy start programs provide important services to at-risk families.  Your Committee believes that the current economic crisis is likely to increase stress on families and that parents and children will need the support provided by the healthy start and enhanced healthy start programs.  Your Committee further finds that these programs play an important role in preventing child abuse and neglect.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2077, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity 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 H.B. No. 1354, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1354, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair