STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1301

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 121
                                        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 Education
and Technology, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 121 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A JOINT
     LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL
     HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a Joint
Legislative Committee on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(JLC).

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health and Department of
Education.

     This measure is primarily intended to address the problems
of implementing the requirements of the Felix consent decree.
The State has until June 30, 2002, to comply with Felix by
implementing a system of care to provide services for the Felix
class.

     The legislature has the duty and responsibility to oversee
the process of Felix compliance.  However, efforts to date during
legislative hearings have not yielded satisfactory answers.  This
measure is intended to help the legislature keep abreast of Felix
compliance measures with a view towards ensuring that the State
meets the deadline.  More importantly, your Committees are

 
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concerned that students under Felix receive the help and services
they are entitled to by law.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding the Department of Human Services and the
          Department of Health to the expert panel;

     (2)  Forming a resource committee under the JLC, composed of
          persons representing parent organizations, consumer
          groups, and provider groups; and

     (3)  Specifying that the Legislative Reference Bureau assist
          the JLC.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Education and
Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees
concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 121, as amended
herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 121,
S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Education and
                                   Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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