Report Title:
Tobacco settlement money; Crystal methamphetamine treatment and prevention
Description:
Allocates a portion of tobacco settlement money from the tobacco prevention and control trust fund to the prevention and treatment of crystal-methamphetamine use. (HB2843 HD1)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2843 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004 |
H.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to crystal methamphetamine.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 328L-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The fund shall be used for the purpose of receiving, allocating, and appropriating the tobacco settlement moneys as follows:
(1) Twenty-four and one-half per cent shall be appropriated into the emergency and budget reserve fund under section 328L-3;
(2) Thirty-five per cent shall be appropriated to the department for purposes of section [328L-4;] 328L-4(a);
(3) [Twelve and one-half] Six and one-quarter per cent shall be appropriated into the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund under section 328L-5; [and]
(4) Twenty-eight per cent shall be appropriated into the university revenue-undertakings fund created in section 306-10, to be applied solely to the payment of the principal of and interest on, and to generate required coverage, if any, for, revenue bonds issued by the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to finance the cost of construction of a university health and wellness center, including a new medical school facility, to be situated on the island of Oahu, for the succeeding fiscal year; provided that any moneys in excess of the amount required to pay principal of and interest on, and to generate required coverage, if any, for such revenue bonds in any fiscal year, shall be transferred as follows:
(A) To the emergency and budget reserve fund under section 328L-3, eighty per cent of the excess; and
(B) To the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund under section 328L-5, twenty per cent of the excess;
in the succeeding fiscal year[.]; and
(5) Six and one-quarter per cent shall be appropriated to the department for purposes of section 328L-4(b)."
SECTION 2. Section 328L-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§328L-4[]] Use of funds appropriated to the department. (a) The department, immediately upon receipt of the thirty-five per cent of moneys appropriated pursuant to section 328L-2(b)(2) shall:
(1) Transfer up to ten per cent of the total moneys received by the State from tobacco settlement moneys to the department of human services for the children’s health insurance program; and
(2) Expend the remainder of the moneys received by the department for health promotion and disease prevention programs, including but not limited to[,] maternal child health and child development programs, promotion of healthy lifestyles (including fitness, nutrition, and tobacco control), and [prevention oriented] prevention-oriented public health programs.
For purposes of paragraph (2), the director shall convene an advisory group that shall be separate from the tobacco prevention and control advisory board, to strategically plan the development and implementation of preventive systems to achieve measurable outcomes and to make recommendations for the expenditure of these moneys. The advisory group shall be [composed] comprised of nine members with expertise in the programs under paragraph (2), and shall be selected at the discretion of the director.
(b) The department shall expend the moneys appropriated pursuant to section 328L-2(b)(5) for treatment and prevention programs addressing the abuse of crystal methamphetamine, including:
(1) School-based drug treatment programs in the public middle, intermediate, and high schools;
(2) Adult substance-abuse treatment services, including family counseling; and
(3) A needs assessment for adult substance-abuse treatment services."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.