STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2217

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2931

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2931 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Health to develop a four-year state plan relating to the delivery of mental health and substance abuse service in each geographic service area with specific emphasis on special populations.

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that federal law already requires a statewide mental health services plan for children and adults and this measure would be duplicative.

     Your Committees have amended this measure to require the Department of Health to submit to the Legislature a copy of all reports written and submitted by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, the Adult Mental Health Division, and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division to the federal government pursuant to United States Code, Title 42, section 300x-1.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2931, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2931, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair