Bill Text: HI SB2044 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Domestic Violence Shelters; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-24 - (S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. [SB2044 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2044-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2177

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2044

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2044 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for domestic violence shelters.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was given by the City and County of Honolulu's Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Parents and Children Together, Child and Family Service, and Women Helping Women.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the rate of domestic violence continues to increase in Hawaii, and without anywhere to go, victims are often forced to stay in the home with their abusers.  Your Committee also finds that domestic violence shelters save lives in our community and they are an important part of bettering our community.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure to change the appropriation amount from a blank amount to one dollar for purposes of 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. 2044, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2044, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair