STAND. COM. REP. NO. 729

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 950

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health & Homelessness, to which was referred H.B. No. 950 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSISTED COMMUNITY TREATMENT ORDERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Extend the time period that the Family Court may order continued assisted community treatment from one year to two years; and

(2) Reduce the time period that the Family Court needs to determine whether assisted community treatment should continue from one hundred eighty days to one hundred days.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health; Institute for Human Services Inc.; and Hawaii Disability Rights Center.

Your Committee finds that extending the time period for the Family Court to order continued assisted community treatment for individuals with severe mental illness or severe substance abuse issues from one year to two years will increase the likelihood that these individuals will receive early intervention and appropriate care and treatment in the least restrictive setting.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Homelessness that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 950, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 950, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair