Bill Text: HI HB1565 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Membership; State Rehabilitation Council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1565 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1565-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  611

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1565

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1565 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE REHABILITATION COUNCIL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of members on the State Rehabilitation Council (SRC) from 21 to 15.

 

     The Department of Human Services (DHS) supported this bill.

 

     The SRC is a mandated council under the federal Rehabilitation Act, and the federal minimum of required positions on the SRC is 15.  According to DHS, the SRC has had difficulty in reaching quorum with the current State required minimum of 21 members and it is the belief of SRC that there would be a greater chance of achieving quorum with the manageable federal minimum of 15 members.

 

     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. 1565 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair