STAND. COM. REP. NO.  925

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 918

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 918, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY INTERVENTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the procurement of a web-based data system in the Department of Health's Early Intervention Section and for the maintenance and training required to support the system.

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Early Childhood Action Strategy, and Hawaii Children's Action Network testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and Executive Office on Early Learning provided comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 918, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair