STAND. COM. REP. NO. 487

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 842
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 842 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE
     ADDITIONAL STATEWIDE COMMUNITY-BASED GATEKEEPER TRAINING FOR
     TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to
provide additional statewide community-based gatekeeper training
for teen suicide prevention and intervention.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition.

     Your Committee finds that suicide in Hawaii is the second
leading cause of death in the fifteen to twenty-four year old age
group.  According to a 1997 survey of ninth to twelfth graders,
approximately twenty-seven per cent have seriously considered
suicide, twenty-one per cent have made suicide plans, and eleven
and one-half per cent made a suicide attempt in the preceding
twelve month period.  This measure provides funding for
additional statewide community-based gatekeeper training for teen
suicide and prevention and intervention.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 842 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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