Report Title:

Sex Assault Prevention Education; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for the statewide sex assault prevention education program conducted by the Sex Abuse Treatment Center.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1359

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for a statewide sex assault prevention education program by the sex abuse treatment center.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. In recent years, the legislature has introduced numerous bills relating to sex assault in the area of intrafamilial assault, teenaged sex assault, sex offender treatment, and other issues. The legislature finds that there is a lack of understanding in the community of these issues and of the causes and effects of sex assault. In past years, sex assault programs have suffered substantial reductions to their budget, causing interruptions to the statewide public education effort.

The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, a program of the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, has the master contract for all sex assault prevention and treatment services. Under this contract, in fiscal year 2000, sex assault agencies provided prevention education presentations to nineteen thousand fifty-seven individuals. To promote the availability and accessibility of sex assault services, public awareness education was provided to forty-one thousand two hundred fifty-one individuals. In addition, the sex assault agencies promoted public awareness through broad-based education efforts, including radio, television, and the print media. Additional funding is needed to continue this statewide effort.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $600,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, for statewide sex assault prevention education programs.

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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