Bill Text: HI SB1139 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Home Visiting Program; Appropriation ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, Say excused (2). [SB1139 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1139-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1077
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 1139
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1139, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOME VISITING PROGRAM,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to promote healthy child development and strengthen families by:
(1) Establishing the Hawaii Home Visiting Program within the Department of Health to identify families of newborns at risk for poor health and safety outcomes, including child abuse and neglect, through hospital-based screening and home visiting services; and
(2) Appropriating funds for the Hawaii Home Visiting Program.
Your Committees note that this measure is substantially similar to H.B. No. 908, H.D. 2, which passed out of the House Committee on Finance and crossed-over to the Senate. After due consideration, your Committees find that the substantive and nonsubstantive differences found in H.B. No. 908, H.D. 2, provide a preferable alternative in accomplishing the purpose of this bill as received.
Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that the tools used to provide proactive, universal screening of newborns' families under the Hawaii Home Visitation Program be validated for identifying levels of risk for poor health and safety outcomes and child abuse and neglect;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to conform to the provisions of H.B. No. 908, H.D. 2.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1139, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1139, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair |
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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