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.R. No. 136 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Judiciary to establish an appropriate fee for court-ordered forensic evaluations and to provide copies of the examination reports to the Department of Health.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center. The Judiciary submitted comments to this measure. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that requesting the Judiciary to establish appropriate fees for forensic evaluations and to provide the Department of Health with copies of these evaluation reports will streamline the forensic evaluation process for pretrial detainees.

Your Committee has amended this measure in response to the testimony submitted by the Department of Health by eliminating superfluous language.

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 S.R. No. 136, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 136, S.D. 1.