STAND. COM. REP. NO. 996

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1620

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1620, 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 provide treatment services for child victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse.

Specifically, this measure appropriates $314,381 in fiscal year 2005-2006 and fiscal year 2006-2007 for these services, including psychological treatment and case management services for child victims and their families who are not covered under the Child Protective Services System of the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee has amended this measure to include the appropriations from the following measures, indicating whether each appropriation is made as a grant or purchase pursuant to chapters 42F or 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, respectively, and replacing all specifically appropriated amounts with unspecified amounts for purposes of further discussion:

(1) S.B. No. 115:  to the Department of Health, as a purchase of service pursuant to chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide resources to nonprofit, community-based health care providers for direct medical care to the uninsured, including primary, medical, dental, and behavioral care;

(2) S.B. No. 861, S.D. 1:  to the Department of Health, as a purchase of service pursuant to chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for sexual assault direct services throughout Hawaii;

(3) S.B. No. 952:  to the Department of Health, as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for a full-time dentist for the mobile care vans of the Office of Social Ministry's Mobile Care Health Project;

(4) S.B. No. 1227, S.D. 1:  to the Department of Health, as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide critical food, housing, and transportation assistance to eligible HIV/AIDS patients who can no longer be supported by federal CARE Act funding and to ensure that related programs such as FoodBasket and Gregory House continue;

(5) S.B. No. 1263, S.D. 1:  to the Department of Health, as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for emergency medical services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center;

(6) S.B. No. 1537, S.D. 1:  to the Department of Health, as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to pay The Queen's Medical Center for the costs it incurs to compensate physicians to be on-call to provide trauma and emergency medical services; provided that The Queen's Medical Center accepts, immediately and on a continuing basis, patients from the neighbor islands needing trauma care and that the Department of Health obtains such assurances from The Queen's Medical Center for purposes of this section prior to and during the release of any funds;

(7) S.B. No. 1737:  to the Department of Health, as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to Na Lei Wili Area Health Education Center's Grow Our Own Healers Youth Program and Health Corps Hawaii to address workforce shortages through tiered mentoring, health care exploration, community health education, and community service;

(8) S.B. NO. 1202:  to the Department of Health, as grants pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for:

(A) Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Honolulu for the Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center;

(B) The senior center program at the Moiliili Community Center; and

(C) The senior center program at the Waikiki Community Center; and

(9) S.B. No. 1513:  to the Department of Human Services to support and expand:

(A) The Nursing Home Without Walls program so that this program can continue to provide high quality elder care-related services to Hawaii's elderly population; and

(B) The chore services program so that this program can continue to provide high quality elder care as well as disabled services to Hawaii's elderly and disabled populations.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has also amended this measure to include additional unspecified appropriations, as a grant or purchase pursuant to chapters 42F or 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, respectively, for the following health and human services:

(1) The Hawaii Youth Services Network for its Transitional Living Program for Unserved Street Youth, to be expended by the Office of Youth Services, Department of Human Services;

(2) The residential alternative community care program, to be expended by the Department of Human Services;

(3) The Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii for its Na Keiki Law Center project focusing on protecting the legal rights of children, to be expended by the Office of Community Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations;

(4) The Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline for Maui program services, to be expended by the Judiciary, Circuit Court of the Second Circuit;

(5) Costs related to homeless assistance, to be expended by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii;

(6) The Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly to expand to the neighbor islands, to be expended by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Department of Health;

(7) The St. Francis Medical Center for the operations of the bone marrow registry, to be expended by the Department of Health;

(8) The Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc., for its night transportation service for dialysis treatment programs in Maui County, to be expended by the Office of Community Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations;

(9) The Hawaii Seropositivity and Medical Management Program, to be expended by the Department of Health;

(10) The Friends of Foster Kids to develop infrastructure to transition into a professional child welfare services agency, to be expended by the Department of Human Services;

(11) 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, to be expended by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii;

(12) Parents and Children Together for programs on child development and parenting skills and other programs that foster positive environments between parents and their children, to be expended by the Department of Human Services;

(13) The Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii in Papakolea to continue its youth services program, to be expended by the Office of Youth Services, Department of Human Services;

(14) The Honolulu Community Action Program in Waianae to support the Hawaii Family Advocacy Program in assisting families in the Child Protective Services System, to be expended by the Office of Community Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; and

(15) Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, in collaboration with the Kalihi-Palama Health Center, to establish school-based or school-linked health services at the high school and middle schools in Kalihi, to be expended by the Department of Health.

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 S.B. No. 1620, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1620, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair