STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1093

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1367

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1367, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROJECT KEALAHOU,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for Project Kealahou to ensure that the array of community-based, outpatient services and supports offered by this program are continued and expanded to meet the needs of at-risk youth, particularly adolescent females, and their families.

 

     The Judiciary, Community Alliance on Prisons, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and four individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $900,000 for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 to continue and expand Project Kealahou's cost-effective array of services to at-risk youth and their families who would otherwise not have access to these services.  

 

     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. 1367, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1367, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair