STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2817

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2536, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make emergency
appropriations of $17,735,924, out of the general fund, and
$378,646 out of the child and adolescent mental health special
fund, and $38,866 out of the behavioral health administration
special fund, for services to emotionally disturbed children and
adolescents.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health (DOH) and HGEA-AFSCME.

     This measure is to fund services required under the Felix
case, now pending in litigation in the United States District
Court.  The expenditures are necessary for the State to comply
with court-ordered mandates to bring the State up to
constitutionally acceptable standards for the provision of
services to emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

     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
of H.B. No. 2536, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second

 
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Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education and
Technology.

                                   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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