STAND. COM. REP. 1013

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1364

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1364, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that emergency psychiatric examination and hospitalization is an alternative for mentally ill adults and mentally ill adults suffering from substance abuse.

The Department of Health and Hawaii Psychological Association testified in support of this measure. The Judiciary provided comments.

Your Committee finds that current law states that an individual suffering from only a substance abuse disorder may be hospitalized on psychiatric grounds. This measure would clarify that the individual with a suspected substance abuse disorder must also be suspected to be mentally ill to be admitted for emergency examination or hospitalization.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1364, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1364, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair