STAND. COM. REP. NO.  804-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2226

      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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2226, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF LANGUAGE ACCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for three full-time equivalent permanent positions within the Office of Language Access to assist state agencies and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii's Language Access Law.

 

     The Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights; Freely Associated States Empowerment; Hawaii Filipino Lawyers Association; Filipinos for Affirmative Action; National Federation of Filipino American Associations Region 12; Filipino American Citizens League; Nursing Advocates & Mentors, Inc.; Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training; and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Language Access commented on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2226, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair