STAND. COM. REP. NO. 585

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1185

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1185 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make funding available to increase and ensure assistance to victims of sexual assault by providing this money, via the Department of Health (DOH), to agencies who provide counseling and medical services.

The Hawaii Women Lawyers, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, YWCA of Hawaii Island, YWCA of Kauai, and a concerned individual supported this measure.

Your Committee believes that sexual assault is one of the most traumatic and ugliest forms of cruelty a person can fall victim to. Therefore, these survivors should have the greatest amount of resources available to them to help in the extensive and painful recovery process that they must endure.

To encourage further discussion, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Appropriating $1 for each fiscal year requested; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1185, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1185, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair