STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1213

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1036

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1036, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to convene a task force to address health care and payment reform steps to implement an effective addiction treatment system as a component of health care to improve outcomes and reduce overall health care costs.  

 

     The Community Health Outreach Work Project testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition supported this measure with amendments.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Establishing a working group, rather than a task force;

 

(2)  Amending the focus of the measure to address publicly-funded substance abuse treatment services;

 

(3)  Making the appropriation for convening the working group applicable to Fiscal Year 2015-2016;

 

(4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

Your Committee notes the testimony of the Department of Health that it will cost $17,000 to convene the working group, including travel and other expenses related to the duties of the working group.

 

     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. 1036, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1036, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair