STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2819

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2746
                                        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. 2746, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PEER
     EDUCATION PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
maintain the operations of peer education programs in twenty-six
schools, and to fund the establishment of peer education programs
in ten additional schools.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Commission on the
Status of Women, Adult Friends for Youth, Hawaii State Teachers
Association, American Cancer Society, Kapiolani Health, Kailua
Intermediate School, Ilima Intermediate School, Keiki Injury
Prevention Coalition, and 95 private individuals.

     The peer education program was established in 1988 to
address such serious teen health issues as pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, substance abuse, violence, and suicide.
The department of health has assumed the lead in the program by
establishing broad-based, systemic, adolescent health prevention
programs in the State's secondary schools.  Your Committee
believes that this is a necessary program that has become an
essential component in our public school system, resulting in
well-adjusted teens who are able to contribute to society.


 
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     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. 2746, H.D. 1, 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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