STAND. COM. REP. NO.  150-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1740

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1740 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION ACCESS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to maintain a telephone-based audible information access service.

 

     Hawaii Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind, National Federation of the Blind, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate continued discussion on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1740, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1740, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair