STAND. COM. REP. NO.  898

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 129

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, 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 for each year of fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for the Perinatal Addiction Treatment of Hawaii Clinic for case management and social services.

     The Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; The Drug Policy Action Group; The League of Women Voters of Hawaii; Planned Parenthood of Hawaii; Hawaii Women's Coalition; March of Dimes-Hawaii Chapter; Community Alliance on Prisons; The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii; and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Health and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Replacing "Perinatal Addiction Treatment of Hawaii" with "The Path Clinic" to accurately reflect the clinic's name;

     (2)  Specifying that the appropriation is a grant pursuant to Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (3)  Removing the appropriation amount;

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 129, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 129, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair