STAND. COM. REP. NO.  70

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 384

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 384 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH VIOLENCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help reduce youth violence and delinquency by appropriating funds to the Department of Human Services for the funding of operational costs of an organization that provides for therapeutic prevention and mental health programs for high risk youth.

 

     The Office of Youth Services, Adult Friends for Youth, and an individual testified in support.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by making the effective date July 1, 2050, to promote 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 H.B. No. 384, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 384, 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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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair