Bill Text: HI SB2828 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-30 - (S) Act 096, 4/30/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1197). [SB2828 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2828-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1008-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2828

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2828 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII EARLY INTERVENTION COORDINATING COUNCIL,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to revise the membership and functions of the Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council to be consistent with the State Interagency Coordinating Council in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.

 

     The Department of Health and Family Voices of Hawai`i testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Increasing total membership on the Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council to 23 members by increasing the number of members from the Legislature on the council to two members, and specifying that one member is to be appointed by the Senate President and one member is to be appointed by the House Speaker;

(2)  Specifying that the Hawaii Early Intervention Coordinating Council chairperson shall not be a member of an executive or administrative department under Chapter 26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to executive and administrative departments;

 

(3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2828, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2828, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair