STAND. COM. REP. 2170

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2165

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2165 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND PROTECTION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to implement a program to conform to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to provide drug affected newborns and their families with referral services, safe care, and triage procedures.

The Department of Human Services and Blueprint for Change submitted testimony in favor of this measure.

Your Committees find that this measure supports the goals and objectives of the Department of Human Services. Moreover, this measure will help Hawaii conform to the federal provisions of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Keeping Children and Families Safe Act. These federal provisions require states to enact an administrative program for health care of infants born and identified as being affected by illegal substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2165 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair