CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 73

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2017

 

RE:    H.B. No. 554

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 554, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORDERS FOR TREATMENT OVER OBJECTION,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish criteria and a process for administrative orders to provide necessary medical treatment to persons who are involuntarily committed to an inpatient psychiatric facility or are inmates or detainees in the custody of the Department of Public Safety who are unable or unwilling to consent to the provision of treatment.


 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting provisions relating to administrative orders for treatment of inmates and detainees in the custody of the Department of Public Safety;

 

     (2)  Adding new language requiring the Department of Health and Department of Public Safety to collaborate on recommendations for an administrative process for orders to provide psychiatric treatment to inmates and detainees, based on best practices in other jurisdictions;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Health to report annually to the Legislature on the Department's implementation and use of the administrative process established by this Act and on the Department's use of the Assisted Community Treatment process under existing statutes to provide medical and psychiatric care to individuals on an outpatient basis;

 

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2017, and inserting a seven-year sunset; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 554, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 554, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER

Chair

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO

Chair

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN

Co-Chair