STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2773

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2877
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2877 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL
     HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency
appropriation for child and adolescent mental health.

     Specifically, this bill appropriates additional general fund
and special fund moneys to the Department of Health for fiscal
year 1999-2000 to allow the child and adolescent mental health
division to continue to provide services to certain emotionally
disturbed children and adolescents.

     This bill is recommended by the Governor for immediate
passage in accordance with the state constitution.

     According to the Department of Health, unanticipated
increases in the cost to serve children and adolescents who are
severely emotionally disturbed, and obligations associated with
the consent decree in Felix v. Cayetano will increase the
expenditures of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division
beyond amounts authorized for fiscal year 1999-2000.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 
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     (1)  Requiring a minimum of ten per cent of the funds
          appropriated under this bill and expended by the
          Department of Health for any new treatment or service
          programs, to be expended for the purpose of conducting
          process and outcome evaluations of these programs;

     (2)  Requiring these process and outcome evaluations to be
          conducted for the Department of Health by an
          independent evaluator;

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Health to submit reports of
          these process and outcome evaluations to the
          Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular
          Session of 2002; and to the Auditor, at any time, upon
          the request of the Auditor; and

     (4)  Directing the Auditor to monitor the conduct of these
          process and outcome evaluations and to report its
          findings and recommendations to the Legislature or the
          Department of Health, or both, whenever or as deemed
          necessary.

     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.
2877, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2877, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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