STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1031

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1370

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1370 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate emergency funding to the Department of Health's (DOH) Adult Mental Health Division (Division).

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in her Governor's Message No. 234 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature citing an existing critical funding shortage.

     This bill appropriates $8,377,698 for fiscal year 2006-2007

from the Special Fund to be used to sustain the ongoing

services provided by the Division.

     DOH and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Adding a new section which provides the reasons why and the amount and rate by which the appropriation contained in this bill exceeds the state spending limit to comply with statutory and constitutional requirements; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1370, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1370, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair