STAND. COM. REP. NO. 31

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 392

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 392 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the interagency coordinating body for youth and family programs within the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy; and Hale Opio Kauai, Inc.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that as many private organizations collaborate to benefit their target populations, state agencies should similarly make a collective and synergistic impact by utilizing their collective resources in a more intentional and informed manner through a coordinating body for youth and family programs.  This effort would result in each state agency having more knowledge of services that are being provided and by whom and should lead to youth and families having more knowledge and access to a comprehensive and coordinated array of services.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 392 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair