STAND. COM. REP. NO.  851-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2881

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2881, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that perinatal services are provided to women struggling with substance abuse problems by:

 

     (1)  Making permanent the perinatal clinic (Clinic) within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating funds for the Clinic.

 

     The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Perinatal Addiction Treatment of Hawaii, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services and University of Hawaii at Manoa commented on this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2881, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair