Bill Text: HI SB127 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Comprehensive Deaf Center; Appropriation; Grant
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB127 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB127-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1042
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: S.B. No. 127
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
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 S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING A GRANT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DEAF CENTER,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services (DHS) as a grant for the establishment and operation of a comprehensive deaf center.
Several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. DHS and a concerned individual provided comments.
Your Committee finds that the grant amount needed for the establishment and operation of a comprehensive deaf center for the initial year is approximately $400,000 and the operation of the center is approximately $350,000 for each following year. According to DHS, sending people to centers on the mainland is not cost effective.
Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2075, to encourage further discussion.
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 S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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