STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1157

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 899
                                        H.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 H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG
     TREATMENT, COUNSELING, AND INTERVENTION SERVICES AT KING
     INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to Teen
Care to provide substance abuse treatment, counseling, and
intervention services to certain substance-abusing children and
adolescents at King Intermediate School.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Education, the Department of
Health, King Intermediate School, Hina Mauka, and a private
individual.

     Your Committees find that King Intermediate School has a
critical need for drug treatment, counseling, and intervention
services, such as provided by the Teen Care program.  There has
been an increase in the number of students who have been
identified or suspended for possessing illicit drugs.  King
Intermediate feeds into Castle High School, which has a Teen Care
program but has also seen an increase of substance-abuse among
ninth graders.


 
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     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 are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   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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