STAND. COM. REP. NO. 465

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 394
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Government
Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 394
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
the establishment of a range of supportive housing options for
persons with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI).

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Housing and Community Development Corporation of
Hawaii (with budgetary reservations), Department of Human
Services, Department of Health, Democratic Party of Hawaii,
Health Care for the Homeless Project, and Network Enterprises.

     Your Committees find that there is currently an urgent
social problem in the care of persons with SPMI, who have
multiple needs and lifestyles, with no single model of treatment
appropriate for all of them.  Your Committees further find that
one of the most immediate pressing needs of the SPMI population
is adequate and appropriate housing, since they tend to be
homeless and to have social and criminal histories.  They can be
described as being the homeless mentally ill.  This measure is
intended to initiate discussion on providing housing for the SPMI
population.


 
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     Your Committees have amended this measure to insert one
dollar for the appropriation.  Further, your Committees have
amended this measure to require the Department of Human Services
to develop and implement an action plan for the establishment of
supportive housing options for persons with SPMI.  Your
Committees believe that these supportive housing options cannot
be established if an action plan has not been developed.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Government Operations
and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 394, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 394, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Government
                                   Operations and Housing,



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ROD TAM, Chair                     SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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