Bill Text: HI HB2138 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Healthy Start Program; Established; Budget Exemption

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on EDN with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Pine, Tokioka excused (3). [HB2138 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2138-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  28-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2138

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTHY START,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to thrive in an abuse-free home by establishing the Healthy Start Program (Program) in statute and exempting it from the budget allotment system.

 

     The Hawaii Family Support Institute, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Blueprint for Change, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Providing that any exemptions of the Program from the budget allotment system with respect to services provided or contracted by the Department of Health shall be determined by the Legislature;

 

     (2)  Removing language specifying that the Program is exempt from budget reductions made under the allotment system;

 

     (3)  Removing language specifying that the Program's exemption from the allotments system applies to personnel positions;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (5)  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. 2138, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2138, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair