STAND. COM. REP. NO.  71

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 129

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 129 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce substance abuse among pregnant women by appropriating $200,000 in each year of the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium for the Perinatal Addiction Treatment of Hawaii Clinic for case management and other social services.

     Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the March of Dimes Foundation Hawaii Chapter, the League of Women Voters Hawaii, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, the Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, the Women's Coalition, and many concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair