Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2132 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a pilot clinic that provides prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care to women with a history of methamphetamine or other substance abuse.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists-Hawaii Section, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Hawaii Women's Coalition, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Blueprint for Change, Drug Policy Action Group, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, and two individuals.

Your Committees find that funding a prenatal pilot program for women with a history of substance abuse is a crucial step in protecting the well-being of Hawaii's next generation.

Your Committees amended this measure by adopting the recommendations of the Department of Human Services by:

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. 2132, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2132, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.