Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3275 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish an "assessment bank" to cover the cost of substance abuse assessments of uninsured students who violate the Department of Education's zero tolerance policy relating to alcohol and drugs.

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

Your Committees find that there were 1,103 students involved in 930 offenses relating to the use of alcohol or illicit substances during the 2004-2005 school year, and that resources should be committed to provide for an assessment bank that would fund assessment services for uninsured students.

Your Committees have amended this measure by including an appropriation amount, and by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3275, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3275, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.