STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2026

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2444
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2444 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TREATMENT OF
     VICTIMS OF INTRAFAMILIAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
treatment of victims of intrafamilial child sexual abuse.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services (DHS), the Judiciary,
Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney, Sex Abuse Treatment Center,
Children's Advocacy Center of Oahu, Inc., and Friends of the
Children's Advocacy Center of East Hawaii.

     Your Committee believes that intrafamilial child sexual
abuse is a traumatic event for families, with long-lasting
effects on the child victims, siblings, and protective parents.
Treatment services are essential to promote healing and
psychological health of children and families who have suffered
the devastation of child abuse.

     This measure is intended for families who are not under the
child protective services system of the DHS.  These families are
not eligible to receive treatment services provided by the system
so their plight is ignored unless treatment is extended to them.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2444 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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