STAND. COM. REP. NO.  31

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 55

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 55 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to:

 

(1)  Establish a Youth Suicide Early Intervention and Prevention Program (Program) for Hawaii; and

 

(2)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the Program.

 

     The National Alliance on Mental Illness Oahu, the Hawaii Suicide Prevention Steering Committee, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Health and Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 55 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair