STAND. COM. REP. 2727

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2592

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Department of Health for the provision of sexual assault services.

Your Committee finds that providing and maintaining access to comprehensive support services is the most effective community response to sexual assault. Funding will help provide emergency medical care, twenty-four-hour coverage for crisis intervention and outreach services, therapy services, comprehensive sexual assault awareness and prevention and education programs, and coordinated planning for standardized sexual assault services statewide. Since a significant portion of domestic violence is sexual assault, it is appropriate that fifty per cent of the appropriation amount will be expended out of the domestic violence prevention special fund.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount to permit the measure to move forward while the Legislature continues to work on the state budget. Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive changes to the bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2592, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair