STAND. COM. REP. 2314

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2945

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2945 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require annual statewide planning based on planning within each county and to require the appointment of a service area administrator in each county.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that this measure proposes technical amendments designed to bring language in chapter 335, Hawaii Revised Statutes, into conformance with language emanating from the Community Plan for Mental Health Services.

Your Committee has made technical amendments to this measure.

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. 2945 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair