STAND. COM. REP. NO. 432

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 175
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 175 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make appropriations for
the protection of children and families.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services (DHS), Department of Health
(DOH), University of Hawaii School of Nursing, PACT, Hawaii
Community Foundation, Catholic Charities, Waipahu Neighborhood
Place, YMCA, Neighborhood Place of Kona, Hawaii Children's Trust
Fund, The Salvation Army Family Treatment Services, Blueprint for
Change Task Force, Hawaii Family Support Center, The Junior
League of Honolulu, Inc., Hawaii Chapter of American Physical
Therapy Association, and two private citizens.

     Specifically, this measure makes appropriations for:

     (1)  DOH child death review teams to hire personnel;

     (2)  Attorney General's family law division to hire
          personnel;

     (3)  DHS to prevent child abuse and neglect;


 
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     (4)  Hawaii Children's Trust Fund;

     (5)  Healthy Start program for services for families "at
          risk";

     (6)  Substance abuse and treatment services of the DHS for
          pregnant and parenting women and their families;

     (7)  Blueprint for Change program ("Neighborhood Place") of
          the DHS;

     (8)  Foster parent training; and

     (9)  Psychosocial support services programs ("The Parent
          Line" and "Home Reach") of the DOH.

     Your Committee finds that the appropriations contained in
this measure are necessary to prevent child abuse.  The various
programs focus on different aspects of a total matrix of
effective prevention with proven success.  Each program fits into
continuum of enforcement and prevention services that are
necessary to effectively address child abuse and neglect in
Hawaii.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 175, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 175,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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