STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2518

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2489
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2489, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BRAIN INJURY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a task force to
identify and eliminate policy barriers to neurotraining services
and to establish a community-based neurotraining research,
education, and training infrastructure.

     This bill appropriates $400,000 for fiscal year 2000-2001 to
the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to
carry out this purpose provided that $1 of the appropriated
amount will be released for every $4 received from the private
sector.

     Your Committee has amended this bill to delete the
appropriated amount of $400,000 and to leave the amount blank for
purposes of further discussion.  Your Committee has also made
several technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of
clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.

 
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2489, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2489, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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