STAND. COM. REP. 538

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1272

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1272, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVOCACY FOR HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to appropriate funds for:

(1) The adoption of special needs children;

(2) A grant-in-aid to a nonprofit legal services provider to increase supplemental security income benefits especially for special needs children; and

(3) A grant-in-aid to a nonprofit legal services provider for a federal medicare advocacy project.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. The Department of Human Services supported the intent of the bill and provided comments. Hawaii Disability Rights Center opposed the measure.

Your Committee finds that a grant-in-aid is not properly included in the bill as the grant-in-aid deadline has past.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the two parts that proposed to provide grants-in-aid; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1272, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1272, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair