Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1466, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to permit the Department of Health to implement a substance abuse prevention grant program.

Specifically, the Department of Health would be authorized to award community coalitions not more than $150,000 each to engage in community mobilization programs and best practices, specifically in areas that lack existing substance abuse prevention resources. This bill would also extend adolescent school-based substance abuse treatment programs to middle and intermediate schools that have no existing school-based programs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 1466, 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. 1466, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.