STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.68

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 978

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 978 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Blueprint For Change and two members of the Hawaii Children's trust Fund Advisory Committee. The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii's Children's Trust Fund is a public/private partnership that mobilizes the resources for programs and organizations that support strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Research shows that effective abuse and neglect prevention programs that strengthen families are less costly than treating children who have been abused or neglected.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 978 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 Health,

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair