Bill Text: HI HB1698 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Resources Development; Qualified Community Rehabilitation Programs; Reporting

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-24 - (S) Act 044, 4/23/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). [HB1698 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1698-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3270

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1698

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1698 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate the requirement for the Department of Human Resources Development to annually report expenditures for qualified community rehabilitation programs to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Human Resources Development only administers the human resources program for the State.  County personnel directors are the chief administrators of their respective county human resource programs.  Consequently, information about county expenditures for their qualified community rehabilitation programs is not available to the Department of Human Resources Development.  Furthermore, because Hawaii law does not permit the Executive Branch of the State to contract with qualified community rehabilitation programs, the Department of Human Resources Development does not have anything to report on behalf of the State.

 

     This measure removes the unnecessary reporting requirement of the Department of Human Resources Development.

 

     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. 1698, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair