Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2505 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to extend adolescent school-based substance abuse treatment programs in middle and intermediate schools.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Department of Health, Hina Mauka, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Hawaii Youth Services Network, the Drug Policy Action Group, and one individual.

Your Committees find that students who are dependent on drugs may not achieve their highest potential and are at great risk of academic failure and dropping out of school. Your Committees further find that a balanced system of prevention, intervention, and treatment available to students will serve to strengthen student-teacher-counselor relationships and help students achieve success.

Your Committees amended this measure to include the appropriation amount of $1,817,500 to be expended by the Department of Health.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Education and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2505, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.