HB2796 SD2 SSCR3086

STAND. COM. REP. 3086

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2796

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various health and human services programs.

Your Committee finds that S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2 (2004), is a similar measure that makes appropriations from the emergency and budget reserve fund in similar amounts to many of the same recipients. Your Committee further finds that S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2 (2004), is a more appropriate vehicle and is more convenient to accommodate the amendments made by your Committee as detailed below.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the contents of S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2 (2004), but with the following changes:

(1) Simplifying and streamlining the measure by deleting all sections in S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2 (2004), that do not specifically make appropriations from the emergency and budget reserve fund, including prefatory and explanatory language supporting each separate appropriation;

(2) Simplifying the measure by designating the measure by sections rather than by parts and sections;

(3) Deleting the appropriations to:

(A) The Hana Community Health Center for a capital improvement project for a nutrition training center for $500,000;

(B) The Molokai General Hospital for Lamalama Ka 'Ili Community Health Services programs and general operating costs for $50,000;

(C) The Department of Human Services for forensic medical examinations of children in foster custody placements for $150,000;

(D) The Department of Human Services for existing Kalihi area youth service centers for $500,000;

(E) The county of Hawaii for the establishment of an adolescent treatment center to treat poly-drug abuse on the island of Hawaii for $300,000;

(F) The county of Hawaii for community anti-drug efforts aimed at preventing crystal methamphetamine use on the island of Hawaii for $100,000;

(G) The Department of Human Services to develop a plan to implement the Hawaii Rx Program for $200,000;

(H) The Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center pilot project for $300,000; and

(I) The Department of Health for substance abuse services for youth and adolescents and the coordination of these services for $100,000;

(4) Modifying the amount appropriated to:

(A) The Kauai Community Health Center from $750,000 to $150,000; and

(B) The Wahiawa general hospital to provide indigent care services from $500,000 to $250,000;

(5) Adding new appropriations as grants-in-aid to the following:

(A) The Family Support Services of West Hawaii for core services for the Kau Family Center in Naalehu and the North Kohala Family Center in Hawi on the island of Hawaii for $100,000;

(B) The Friends of Foster Kids to develop infrastructure to transition into a professional child welfare services agency for $100,000;

(C) The Na Lei Wili Area Health Education Center for the Grow Our Own Healers Youth Program and Health Corps Hawaii to address workforce shortage through tiered mentoring, health care exploration, community health education, and community service for $90,000;

(D) The Roman Catholic Church in the State of Hawaii for the Mobile Care Health Project to provide primary dental care services for the uninsured and underinsured on the islands of Hawaii and Maui for $100,000; and

(E) The Self-Help Housing Corporation of Hawaii for self-help housing technical services to assist low and very low income families to build and own their own homes for $100,000; and

(6) Adding appropriations from H.B. No. 2796, S.D. 1 (2004) as grants-in-aid (except for paragraph (H), which is a subsidy) to the following:

(A) The Hui Malama Learning Center for alternative education services for Maui's at-risk youth for $30,000 (reduced from $105,000);

(B) The Hawaii FI-DO Service Dogs to support activities and projects that raise, train, and place service dogs with residents who have disabilities other than blindness for $40,000 (reduced from $79,000);

(D) The Moiliili Community Center for program support for $60,000;

(E) The Waikiki Community Center for program support for $25,000 (reduced from $50,000);

(F) The Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc. and its night transportation for dialysis treatment programs in Maui County for $50,000 (reduced from $375,000); and

(G) The Hawaii Drug Assistance Program for $25,000 (reduced from $100,000) and the Hawaii Seropositivity and Medical Management Program for $25,000 (reduced from $100,000).

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 H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2796, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair