HB1466 SD1 SSCR3052

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3052

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1466

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1466, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund geographical areas identified by school complexes statewide through existing or emerging community coalitions to coordinate local anti-drug community efforts, fill service gaps, and implement best practice prevention programs.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Breakthroughs for Youth, the Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii, the Community Alliance on Prisons, Community Works in 96744, the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Malama O Kamalii Makamae, the Marimed Foundation, the Mililani Town Association Anti-Drug Committee, and four individuals. Comments concurring or appreciating the intent of the measure were received from the Department of Health and the Department of Education Honolulu and Central Complex Area Superintendents.

Your Committees find that the intent of the measure was for new and emerging community coalitions to receive appropriations, and that the Department of Health Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division should report to the Legislature regarding the impact of past appropriations, and should also receive additional funding to be able to coordinate the various community efforts effectively.

Your Committees further find that the best way to allocate resources would be for the Department of Health to implement a grant program to award community coalitions not more than $150,000 each to engage in community mobilization programs and best practices, specifically in areas that lack existing substance abuse prevention resources.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Adding provisions to reflect the above findings;

(2) Extending adolescent school-based substance abuse treatment programs to middle and intermediate schools that have no existing school-based programs;

(3) Making the effective date July 1, 2006; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1466, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1466, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health,

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair