STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1600

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1367

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1367, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROJECT KEALAHOU,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Appropriate funds for Project Kealahou (Program) to ensure that the array of community-based, outpatient services and supports offered by this Program are continued and expanded to meet the needs of at-risk youth, particularly adolescent females, and their families; and

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division to submit annual reports to the Legislature relating to the Program's outcomes and financial condition.

 

     The Judiciary, Hawaii Youth Services Network, The CHOW Project, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Community Alliance on Prisons, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and the Office of Youth Services provided comments.

 

     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. 1367, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair