STAND. COM. REP. NO. 738-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 1894
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1894, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide children and adolescents access to quality, affordable health care in a convenient, encouraging environment by, among other things:
(1) Establishing a school-based Student Health Services Program (Program);
(2) Convening a planning committee to plan and coordinate the provisions for the Program to complement the Department of Education's (DOE) Comprehensive School Support Services Program; and
(3) Appropriating $500,000 for comprehensive student health services.
The American Heart Association, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Education and Hawaii Government Employees Association supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Health opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation of $500,000 for comprehensive student health services to an unspecified amount;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 H.B. No. 1894, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1894, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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