Bill Text: HI SB2591 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Children and Youth Day and Month; Public Events

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2591 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2591-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2220

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2591

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2591 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require public events celebrating Children and Youth Day to be held on State Capitol grounds on the first Sunday in October if the Children and Youth Day planning committee so chooses, unless otherwise determined by the Governor.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Youth Services Network and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that holding Children and Youth Day events on State Capitol grounds encourages and supports citizen involvement in public policy development, promotes access to the legislative process, and informs legislators of the issues and challenges facing Hawaii's children and youth.

 

Your Committee notes that since young people gain their first exposure to Hawaii's legislative process by participating in the Children and Youth Summit, the Summit should also be held on State Capitol grounds.

 

     Your Committee has therefore amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language to direct public events such as the Children and Youth Summit to also be held on State Capitol grounds in the month of October; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 2591, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2591, 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