Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 113, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Governor to convene a task force to evaluate and recommend possible procedural, statutory, and public policy changes to minimize the census at Hawaii State hospital and promote community-based health services for forensic patients.

Your Committee finds that a task force needs to be established by the Department of Health to evaluate procedural, statutory, and policy changes that may be necessary to effectuate a decreased population at the Hawaii State Hospital and to improve the level of supervision, monitoring, or treatment necessary to ensure the safety of individuals with mental illness and the public.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the contents of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 117 SD1, a similar measure, the primary difference of which is to request the Department of Health to convene a task force, as opposed to requesting the Governor to convene a task force.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 113, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 113, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.