STAND. COM. REP. NO.  465-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2227

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2227, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support ongoing efforts to improve access to government services and programs for limited English proficient individuals by appropriating funds to operate the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and the Multilingual Website Pilot Project.

 

     The Office of Language Access; Hawaii Filipino Lawyers Association; and several concerned individuals supported this measure.  A concerned individual submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating:

 

     (1)  $300,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to operate the Statewide Language Access Resource Center; and

 

     (2)  $150,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to operate the Multilingual Website Pilot Project.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2227, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2227, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair