STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2753

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2505

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKES APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOL-BASED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS FOR ADOLESCENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to extend adolescent school-based substance abuse treatment programs to all middle and intermediate schools.

Your Committee finds that students who are dependent on drugs may not achieve their highest potential and are at great risk of academic failure. Your Committee further finds that making a balanced system of prevention, intervention, and treatment available to students will serve to strengthen student-teacher-counselor relationships and help students achieve success in school and beyond.

Your Committee amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair