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 S.B. No. 2337 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize an increase in the expenditure ceiling of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special fund by an emergency appropriation for the adult mental health division.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Medical Association, and Mental Health Association in Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that an emergency appropriation is needed to ensure that the Hawaii state hospital can meet its obligations for providing adult mental health services and to implement additional services in compliance with the settlement agreement in United States v. State of Hawaii, Civil Number. 91-00137(DAE KSC).

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 S.B. No. 2337 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.