STAND. COM. REP. NO.1264

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1127

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation for services provided by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division to enable the Department of Health (DOH) to fulfill the requirements of the Felix v. Cayetano consent decree.

DOH and the Attorney General submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the general fund expenditure ceiling provisions;

(2) Revising the appropriation from $46,775,340 to $41,976,926 pursuant to the request of the DOH as set forth in its letter dated April 5, 2001, to this Committee;

(3) Revising the appropriation from $1 to $478,250 pursuant to the request of the DOH as set forth in its written communication dated April 6, 2001, to this Committee;

(4) Adding a new section indicating that funding for fiscal biennium 2001-2003 is dependent upon a demonstrated need and is reflected in the general Appropriations Act of 2001; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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 S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair