STAND. COM. REP. NO. 670

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 318

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 318, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Health to establish and administer a five-year pilot program to implement a co-management system of care for the diagnosis and treatment of persons having fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders FASD Action Group, FASD United, Hawaii Substance Coalition, A Family Tree/Pono Roots Counseling Center, and numerous individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that this measure implements recommendations made in a 2009 report from the Department of Health that identified issues preventing the wider recognition and diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Your Committee further finds that the pilot project established by this measure will help the State assess the needs of children and adults affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and to integrate fetal alcohol spectrum disorder services into the State's systems of care.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, 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. 318, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 318, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair