Bill Text: HI HB873 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Foster Care; Extend Age for Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to HMS/JDL, WAM. [HB873 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB873-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  900

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 873

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 873, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE YOUNG ADULT VOLUNTARY FOSTER CARE ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support Hawaii's youth in foster care by establishing the Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care Program extending foster care services to provide care and supervision of eligible foster youth until their twenty-first birthday.

 

     The Hawaii State Judiciary; Department of Human Services; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; Youth Services Network; Catholic Charities Hawaii; Hawaii Women's Coalition; Hale Kipa; Epic Ohana, Inc.; Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; Olomea; and numerous individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  One individual commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending its effective date to January 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 873, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 873, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair