STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1857-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2375

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2375, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOCIAL WORK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals to explore a professional pathway in social work and become eligible to work as assistants to licensed social workers; and

(2) Appropriate funds to develop and establish the social work training program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Human Services, Department of Budget and Finance, and Department of Public Safety.

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 S.B. No. 2375, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, 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