STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2401

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3033
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Education
and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3033 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG
     TREATMENT, COUNSELING, AND INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR
     SUBSTANCE-ABUSING YOUTHS AT WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
drug treatment, counseling, and intervention services for
substance-abusing youths at Waipahu High School.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, Community Alliance on Prisons, the
principal of Waipahu High School, and a private individual.

     Your Committees find that there is a critical need for drug
treatment, counseling, and intervention services, particularly at
Waipahu high school in the Leeward district of Oahu.  The number
of students who have been identified or suspended for drug
related problems or possession of drugs continues to increase.

     Results of the 1998 Hawaii Student Alcohol and Drug Use
Study administered to sophomores and seniors at Waipahu high
school revealed that seventy-one per cent of the sophomores and
sixty-seven per cent of the seniors had tried tobacco at least
once.  The study revealed that forty-two per cent of the
sophomores and twenty-five per cent of the seniors regularly
smoked cigarettes.  Clearly, Waipahu High School has a serious

 
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drug and substance abuse problem, made even more tragic when
considering that the school is one of the largest high schools in
the State.  This measure is intended to remedy that problem.

     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 S.B. No. 3033 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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