Report Title:

Appropriation for methamphetamine prevention and rehabilitation

Description:

Appropriates from the emergency and budget reserve fund $10,000,000 for each of four fiscal years from 2004-2008 for DOH to provide grants and purchases of service for methamphetamine prevention and rehabilitation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2159

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to state funds.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that expenditures from the emergency and budget reserve fund established by section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are needed to meet the emergency economic situation currently facing the State. The legislature determines that the appropriations to the department of health under this Act are urgently needed to maintain levels of programs for methamphetamine prevention and rehabilitation that are essential to the public health, safety, and welfare. The legislature further finds that the appropriations in this Act are consistent with the purposes of the emergency and budget reserve fund.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $10,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for each of fiscal year 2005-2006, fiscal year 2006-2007, and fiscal year 2007-2008, for the department of health to provide grants under chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and purchases of health and human services under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for methamphetamine prevention and rehabilitation.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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