STAND. COM. REP. NO. 963-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2107

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2107, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO DISASTER SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish the position of Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Friends of Civil Rights; The Legal Clinic; Pacific Gateway Center; Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Waipahu Safe Haven Immigrant/Migrant Center; Kaibigan ng Lahaina; Hawaiʻi Workers Center; AARP Hawaiʻi; Roots Reborn; and nine individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services; Office of Language Access; and Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the number of Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator positions to be established to an unspecified number; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2107, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2107, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair