STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1089

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 287
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Education
and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 287, H.D. 1,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PEER
     EDUCATION PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
the peer education program of the Department of Health (DOH).

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health (DOH), Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii State Teachers
Association, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Keiki Injury
Prevention Coalition, Principals of Kahuku High and Intermediate
School and Mililani High School, one private citizen, and sixty-
three individuals who are connected with or have been connected
with the peer education program including staff and students.

     In 1988, the DOH established the peer education program to
address serious teen health issues such as pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, substance abuse, violence, and suicide.
The peer education program has been implemented in twenty-six
schools statewide.  Peer education helps teens who are at-risk or
in crisis, thus diminishing the cost and services needed for
future adult intervention efforts.


 
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     This measure allows the continuation of the program in those
schools and the implementation of the program in ten additional
schools.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Education and
Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 287, H.D. 1,
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 Health and Human
                                   Services and Education and
                                   Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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