STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1722

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.C.R. No. 255

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 255, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN INTERIM TASK FORCE ON THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO CONSIDER THE FEASIBILITY OF THE STATE AUTHORIZING TRAINED AND SUPERVISED PSYCHOLOGISTS TO SAFELY PRESCRIBE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS.,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to establish an interim task force on the accessibility of mental health care to consider the feasibility of the State authorizing trained and supervised psychologists to safely prescribe psychotropic medications for the treatment of mental illness.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

1) Allowing the chairs of the House and Senate Health committees to each designate a task force appointee in their stead;

2) Requiring two designees each from the Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association and the Hawaii Psychological Association, rather than the president and a designee from each; and

3) Making technical, non-substantive amendments.

Your Committee further wishes to express its desire for the task force to work with the Hawaii Primary Care Association during the course of producing its report.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 255, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 255, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair