STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1426
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: S.B. No. 1442
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Homelessness, to which was referred S.B. No. 1442, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to clarify and update the responsibilities of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to reflect the State's current mental health systems of care for children and adolescents.
Your Committees find
that the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division (Division) of the Department
of Health is the State's Medicaid provider of intensive mental health services
for the State's youth and provides mental health services in coordination and
collaboration with other state agencies.
Your Committees further find that it has been fifty years since the
State's laws on mental health services for children and youth were enacted and
the existing laws do not accurately reflect the current role of the Division in
addressing the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the
State. This measure is intended to
clarify the Division's role in delivering mental health services to the State's
children and adolescents in a manner that is child- and family-centered,
culturally sensitive, and evidence-based.
Your
Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000,
to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Homelessness that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1442, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1442, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Homelessness,
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____________________________ LISA MARTEN, Chair |
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____________________________ GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair |
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