Bill Text: HI HB762 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Vocational Rehabilitation; Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-09 - (H) This measure has been deleted from the meeting scheduled on Thursday 02-10-11 9:00AM in conference room 329. [HB762 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-HB762-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 348-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) [Except as may be otherwise
provided with respect to the blind,] There is established the vocational
rehabilitation division within the department of human services [shall
be the state agency] to supervise and administer [the] vocational
rehabilitation services, including services for persons who are blind or
deaf that are not included under this chapter, and services authorized by
this chapter under the state plan formulated in conformance with the Federal
Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, except for that part as may be
administered by a local agency of a political subdivision in the State, and the
department [of human services] shall be the agency to supervise the local
agency in the administration of that part.
For purposes of this subsection, the term "services for persons who are deaf" means development and monitoring of vocational rehabilitation services for persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or deaf-blind."
SECTION 2. The department of human services shall prepare a report to be submitted to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012 that presents the current results of the planning committee working under the department of human services' deaf and hard-of-hearing advisory board to develop plans for a comprehensive deaf center.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2012.
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Report Title:
Vocational Rehabilitation; Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Description:
Establishes a vocational rehabilitation division within the Department of Human Services. Places services for blind and deaf persons under the vocational rehabilitation division. Clarifies services for the deaf. Effective 1/1/12.
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