STAND. COM. REP. NO. 864-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2045

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2045, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a pilot clinic to address Hawaii's current lack of facilities equipped to provide comprehensive prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care to women who have a history of methamphetamine and other substance use, including alcohol and tobacco.

The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Medical Association, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Community Alliance on Prisons, Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Mililani Town Anti-Drug Committee, Mothers Care For Tomorrow's Children, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District VIII, Hawaii Section, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the appropriation for fiscal year 2007-2008; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2045, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2045, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair