STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1077

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1620

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1620, 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 appropriate funds for various health and human services.

The Judiciary's Children's Justice Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hepatitis Prevention, Education, Treatment, and Support Network of Hawaii, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, The Queen's Medical Center, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Waikiki Community Center, Save the FoodBasket, Inc., People Living With HIV/AIDS in Hawaii, West Oahu Hope For a Cure Foundation, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Human Services' Office of Youth Services, Department of Human Services (DHS), and Hawaii Pacific Health provided comments.

Your Committees note that a concern was expressed that the Residential Alternative Community Care Program is funded through Medicaid, and therefore, funds should not be expended through the purchases of health and human services procedures as provided under chapter 103, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by removing the reference to chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised

Statutes, in the section appropriating funds to the Residential Alternative Community Care Program.

Additionally, this bill has been amended by:

(1) Appropriating funds for school-based health services

projects as a collaborative project of the Department of

Health, DHS, and the Department of Education;

(2) Appropriating funds for sexual assault direct treatment

services;

(3) Appropriating funds for Coalition for a Drug Free Hawaii

for the Strengthening Hawaii Families Program to prevent substance abuse;

(4) Appropriating funds for 24-hour, seven days a

week, rapid response emergency medical services unit for

the Mililani and Mililani Mauka areas on Oahu;

(5) Appropriating funds to provide for a third shift of

ambulance services at the Makakilo ambulance unit;

(6) Appropriating funds for a study required for a permanent

emergency medical services hub for the Mililani and Waipio Gentry areas on Oahu;

(7) Appropriating funds for dental services at federally

qualified health centers;

(8) Appropriating funds for staff and support at the West

Hawaii Community Health Center;

(9) Appropriating funds for hiring and maintaining a

hospitalist inpatient staff at the Kona Community Hospital; and

(10) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1620, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1620, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair