Bill Text: HI SB42 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Health; Adult Mental Health Division; Hawaii Certified Peer Specialist Program; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB42 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB42-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 51

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 42

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 42 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Adult Mental Health Division's Hawaii certified peer specialist program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Community Alliance for Mental Health and Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that certified peer specialists have self-identified as having received or are receiving mental health or co-occurring disorder services in their personal recovery process and therefore perform a unique role in assisting the recovery of other individuals diagnosed with mental illness or co-occurring disorders.  Your Committee finds that it is necessary to appropriate funds to support and promote the certified peer specialist program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2030, to encourage 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 S.B. No. 42, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 42, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair