STAND. COM. REP. NO. 553

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 899
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
899 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG
     TREATMENT, COUNSELING, AND INTERVENTION SERVICES AT KING
     INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate moneys to provide
substance abuse treatment, counseling, and intervention services
to certain substance-abusing children and adolescents at King
Intermediate School by Teen Care.

     Specifically, this bill appropriates $90,000 in fiscal year
1999-2000 and the same sum in fiscal year 2000-2001 for drug
treatment, counseling, and intervention services at King
Intermediate School for substance-abusing children, to be
expended by the Department of Health.

     Your Committee received testimony supporting this bill from
the Department of Health, the Superintendent of Education,
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Services of Hawaii, Inc., the principal
and twelve individuals who are staff at King Intermediate School,
the Hawaii State PTSA, the Kualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project,
and one individual.


 
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     Your Committee finds that there is an increasing need for
treatment services for youths aged twelve to eighteen in our
schools and that substance abuse treatment for adolescents is
extremely cost effective.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
899 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to
the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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