Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1872 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support residential drug treatment programs that provide family services to parents with children under the age of 19, by appropriating funds for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division of the Department of Health (DOH).

DOH, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Blueprint for Change, and the Drug Policy Action Group testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that battling substance abuse requires family counseling services in addition to substance abuse treatment. Residential treatment facilities and therapeutic living homes are available to provide services to individuals undergoing substance abuse treatment with the assistance of their family.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1872, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1872, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.