STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2745

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2337

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2337 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize emergency funding to the Department of Health for existing and additional adult mental health services.

Your Committee understands that the proposed funding is required to continue existing services and implement additional services and activities needed to comply with the requirements of the settlement agreement and subsequent orders in United States v. State of Hawaii, Civil No., 91-00137.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2337, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2337, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair