STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3308

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2537
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ways and Means and Health and Human
Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2537 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency
appropriation for the adult mental health division for the
current fiscal year.

     Your Committees find that the primary reason for the
shortfall in funds is the need for additional services and
activities to prevent the reduction or discontinuance of current
and discharged patients of the Hawaii State Hospital.  These
services are necessary to reach compliance with the settlement
agreement and other orders in the case of United States v. State
of Hawaii, Civ. No. 91-00137 (DAE). 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to $14,039,984;

     (2)  Providing that $250,000 of this appropriation shall be
          set aside for process and outcome evaluations for new
          initiatives or programs under HTH 420 and HTH 430, to

 
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          be conducted by any agency external to the Department
          of Health; and

     (3)  Requesting the auditor to assist the legislature in
          assessing these reports as well as overseeing the
          effectiveness and efficiency of the adult mental health
          programs.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committees on Ways and Means and Health and Human Services that
is attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with
the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2537, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 2537, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third
Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Ways and Means
                                   and Health and Human Services,




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  SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair      CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                   ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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