Bill Text: HI SB815 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Zero to Three Court; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB815 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB815-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 29

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 815

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

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. 815 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Honolulu Zero to Three Court for various program purposes.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2008, the family court started the Zero to Three Court in response to increasing scientific evidence that supported a finding that babies and toddlers are neurologically compromised by dysfunctional family dynamics even if they are not directly physically harmed, resulting in long lasting compromised behaviors and learning disorders, early intervention is effective in preventing or alleviating these problems, and there are proven techniques that can help many of these babies and toddlers.  This measure will enable the Zero to Three Court to continue providing essential services to babies and families until more sustainable state funding can be secured.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the expending agency from the Department of Human Services to the Judiciary.

 

     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. 815, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 815, S.D. 1, 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