STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1343
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2019
RE: S.B. No. 1051
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirtieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2019
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Human Services & Homelessness and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1051, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Department of Human Services, Department of Health, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, Partners in Care, Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center, HOPE Services Hawaii, Institute for Human Services, ALEA Bridge, and several individuals supported this measure. The Maui Police Department provided comments.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the Director of Human Services and Director of Health to serve as co-chairs on the task force; and
(2) Including homeless individuals with severe mental illness or severe co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders who are subject to assisted community treatment orders as participants of the future pilot program.
Your Committees are mindful of existing task forces and reports being conducted that look into facilities for non-forensic patients and assist individuals with mental illnesses, such as in H.B. 786 H.D. 1 (2019), that would require a report by the Department of Health on improving and expediting mental health evaluations of specific defendants to the Legislature.
Your Committees note that the Department of Human Services requests a general fund appropriation for fiscal year 2020-2021 of $600,000 to implement a targeted demonstration of a 5- to 8-bed pilot shelter program for homeless individuals with severe mental illness, including the hiring of staff. The Department of Human Services also requested technical assistance from the National Council for Behavioral Health to address the needs identified by this measure and received a proposal for a scope of work to begin June 1, 2019, through July 31, 2022, which includes the following services:
(1) Environmental Scan and Needs Analysis: $24,000;
(2) Five Planning and Assessment Calls for Kick-Off Site Visit, Steering Committee Formation, and other Onsite Visits: $ 4,500;
(3) Four Days Onsite Kick-Off Site Visit and Steering Committee Convening: $36,000;
(4) Twelve Days Onsite Visits over the Period of the Contract, inclusive of training in Evidence-Based Practices such as Motivational Interviewing: $91,200;
(5) Thirty Coaching Calls to Support Implementation Efforts: $27,000;
(6) Six Webinars on a Topic of Clients Choice Based on Recommendations: $12,000; and
(7) Policy, Procedures, Workflows, Care Pathways and Other Resource Development: $24,000.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Homelessness and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1051, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1051, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services & Homelessness and Health,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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______________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair |
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