STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1008

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 899
                                     H.D. 1




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.
899 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG
     TREATMENT, COUNSELING, AND INTERVENTION SERVICES AT KING
     INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to Teen
Care to provide:

     (1)  Substance abuse treatment;

     (2)  Counseling; and

     (3)  Intervention services;

to certain substance-abusing children and adolescents at King
Intermediate School.

     The Department of Health, Tu Tangata-Hawaii, and members of
the public testified in support of this bill.  The Department of
Education testified in support of the intent of this bill.  The
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Services of Hawaii, Inc., dba HINA MAUKA
commented on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the specific appropriation amount to $1 for
          discussion purposes; and

 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and
          clarity.

     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.
899, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair