Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1993 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the availability of mental health care services for patients statewide by establishing and appropriating funds for a one-year pilot telepsychiatry project at the University of Hawaii to serve certain locations around the state.

The Hawaii Psychological Association, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1993, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1993, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.