STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 943-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3068

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

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. 3068, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of Hawaii's residents by appropriating funds from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund (EBR Fund) to a variety of essential health and human services programs.

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Judiciary, Mayor of the County of Maui, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, Parents and Children Together, Maui AIDS Foundation, Child Welfare Services State Advisory Council, National Association of Social Workers, Bridge To Hope, American Academy of Pediatrics Hawaii Chapter, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii Primary Care Association, AlohaCare, Hawaii Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Kokua Council, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii, Kauai Community Health Center, Hana Community Health Center, Papa Ola Lokahi, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Disability and Communication Access Board and Blueprint for Change supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Human Services and Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure. The Department of Health provided comments.

Your Committees find that the EBR Fund is an appropriate source of funding for the various health and human services programs in this measure. Many of these programs have suffered cutbacks in staff or funding, or have experienced an increase in clientele, without an appropriate increase in funding. While Hawaii's economic outlook seems to be improving, the State budget cannot accommodate all of the funding requests for essential services.

Your Committees recognize that some of the programs in this measure have been provided for in other measures that are moving through the legislative process, including the State budget, and some programs have secured adequate funding from other sources.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Removing the appropriations for:

(a) Mental and behavioral health services for Hana High and Elementary School;

(b) A nutrition training center for Hana Community Health Center;

(d) The personal care program at Hale Mahaolu on Maui;

(e) Treatment services for child victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse;

(f) Forensic medical examinations of children in foster custody placements;

(g) The Hawaii Youth Services Network Transitional Living Program for Unserved Street Youth;

(h) Substance abuse services for youth and adolescents;

(i) The Residential Alternative Community Care Program;

(j) Bridge to Hope;

(k) Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii Na Keiki Law Center;

(l) Kaneohe Community Family Center's core services;

(m) Kuhio Park Terrace Family Center's core services;

(n) The Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center Pilot Project;

(o) The Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hoteline for Maui program services;

(p) Blueprint for Change;

(q) Kalihi area youth service centers;

(r) St. Francis Medical Center bone marrow registry;

(s) The Maui AIDS Foundation case management program;

(t) Community-based health care providers to care for the uninsured;

(u) Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children Sex Abuse Treatment Center master contract;

(v) The establishment of an Adolescent treatment center to treat poly-drug abuse on the Big Island;

(w) A grant-in-aid to Hawaii County for anti-drug efforts; and

(x) The Hawaii Rx Program;

(2) Adding appropriations for:

(a) A feasibility study for the establishment of Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly-based programs in rural communities;

(b) Comprehensive student health services; and

(c) Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to organize a domestic captive insurance company to provide malpractice coverage to governmental entities or quasi-governmental entities;

and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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. 3068, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing,

____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair