Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support victims of sexual assault by appropriating funds to the Department of Health (DOH) to provide sexual assault services.

The City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Hawaii Coalition Against Sexual Assault, YWCA of Kauai, and YWCA of Hawaii Island supported this measure. DOH testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committees find that providing and maintaining access to comprehensive services is the most effective community response to sexual assault. Additional funding will help ensure that emergency medical care, 24-hour coverage for crisis intervention and outreach services, therapy services, comprehensive sexual assault awareness and prevention and education programs, and coordinated planning for standardized, sexual assault services are sustained on a statewide basis.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.