STAND. COM. REP. NO. 533-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2536
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2536 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL
     HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency
appropriation to the Department of Health for the Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Division.

     Your Committee has received a letter from the Governor dated
January 31, 2000:

     (1)  Stating that an emergency appropriation and
          authorization for $17,735,924 from general funds,
          $378,646 from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health
          Special Fund, and $38,866 from the Behavioral Health
          Administration Special Fund will allow the Department
          of Health, Child and Adolescent Division to continue to
          provide mental health services to certain emotionally
          disturbed children and adolescents for the period of
          March 1, 2000, through June 30, 2000; and

     (2)  Requesting immediate passage of this measure.

     The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of
this measure.


 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for purposes of 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.
2536, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2536, H.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair