STAND. COM. REP. NO. 758________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1274
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1274, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Health (DOH) to:

     (1)  Develop a statewide public health strategy for the
          treatment and rehabilitation of the survivors of
          traumatic brain injury (TBI); and

     (2)  Establish and fund the office of project coordinator
          for the development of the plan.

     The Department of Education, the Brain Injury Association of
Hawaii, the Hawaii Neuropsychology Community Research Bureau, the
DOH's TBI Advisory Board, and several individuals testified in
support of this measure.  DOH testified in support of the intent
of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing the
appropriations with $1 for purposes of further discussion.


 
 
 
 
 
 
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     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.
1274, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1274, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair