Bill Text: HI SB127 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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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

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 666

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 127

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 127 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to provide a grant subject to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the establishment and operation of a comprehensive deaf center.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from six individuals.  Your Committee received comments on the measure from Patricia McManaman, Interim Director, Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that appropriating funds for a grant to establish and operate a comprehensive deaf center would help empower deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind persons in Hawaii and promote social awareness of their issues and concerns.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Changing the amounts of the appropriations to unspecified sums.

 

     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 S.B. No. 127, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair