Bill Text: HI HB691 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Youth Suicide; Prevention; Keiki Caucus; Appropriation

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB691 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB691-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  72

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 691

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 691 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for a suicide prevention coordinator within the Department of Health (DOH) and for suicide prevention services within the Department of Education.

 

     The Department of Education, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and several concerned individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     The Department of Health testified that a fully-funded and filled teen suicide prevention coordinator position already exists within the Department.  Therefore, your Committee finds that appropriations in the bill to fund that position within the DOH are unnecessary.

                         

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing the reference to "law enforcement personnel" and replacing "other persons who have contact with individuals at risk of suicide" with "personnel who deal with children at work or in a recreational capacity";

 

     (2)  Eliminating the appropriation for the suicide prevention coordinator within the DOH; and

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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 H.B. No. 691, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 691, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair