Bill Text: HI SB918 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Suicide Prevention; Keiki Caucus; Department of Education; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB918 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB918-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 665

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 918

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 918, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support youth suicide prevention services in the schools by appropriating funds to restore positions for a peer education program resource teacher and a full-time clerk-typist for suicide prevention services within the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Kathryn S. Matayoshi, Superintendent of Education, Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that suicide is reportedly the second-leading cause of death in Hawaii among persons fifteen to twenty-four years old and that the rate of attempted suicides among Hawaii high school students is more than double the national average.  This measure provides resources to support school suicide prevention services that can help students deal with the issues that lead to suicide.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing:

 

     (1)  The amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum; and

 

     (2)  The effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of clarity 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. 918, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 918, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair