Report Title:
Emergency Appropriation; DOH
Description:
Authorizes an emergency appropriation for FY 2006-2007 ($8,377,698) from general funds to the DOH, for ongoing services provided by the adult mental health division.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
1456 |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. This Act is recommended for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
SECTION 2. Although funds were appropriated to the department of health for adult mental health services for the fiscal period beginning July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2007, a funding emergency now exists. The program will expend all appropriated funds before the end of the current fiscal year, and the department will be unable to meet its fiscal obligation to provide services to certain adults with severe mental illness.
Over the past four fiscal years, the adult mental health division has served an increasing number of eligible mental health consumers and has provided an increased number of crisis outreach, eligibility determination, homeless outreach, and jail diversion services. This emergency appropriation is to continue existing services to meet the needs of the expanding eligible population and to continue funding of required services developed during the fiscal year. This increase in services and the number of consumers served first resulted from the settlement agreement and subsequent orders in United States of America v. State of Hawaii, Civil Number 91-00137 (DAE/KSC), and continues in response to the need for the public mental health services adult mental health division provides.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate or authorize funds for ongoing services of the adult mental health division.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $8,377,698, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 2006-2007, for ongoing services provided by the adult mental health division.
SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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BY REQUEST |