STAND. COM. REP. NO. 225-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2292
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and
Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No.
2292 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize payment of mental
health counseling, in the case of mass casualty, for deceased
victim's relative, witness, or individual engaged in business or
educational activities at the scene.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Crime Victim Compensation Commission and the
Office of the Prosecutor of the City and County of Honolulu.  The
Department of Health testified in support of the intent of this
measure.

     Your Committees find that this measure is a useful
precaution in light of the chance that another mass casualty
event may occur that leaves many individuals traumatized and in
need of mental health counseling.  With this measure in place,
the state will be able to receive federal funds to assist in this
regard.

     Your Committees have amended this measure to clarify that
the treatment to be covered includes services rendered by social
workers, psychologists, physicians, and marriage and family

 
 
 
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therapists.  Your Committees have also made a technical amendment
to specify the correct name of the federal funding source.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Judiciary
and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2292, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2292, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Public Safety
                                   and Military Affairs and
                                   Judiciary and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair            NESTOR GARCIA, Chair