Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2769 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the residential- and community-based treatment of mentally ill adults by easing program participation standards for transitional facilities and those that offer semi-supervised living arrangements.

The Department of Health and United Self-Help testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2769, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.