Bill Text: HI SCR230 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Adult Mental Health Division Management and Financial Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-30 - (S) Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SCR230 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR230-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2909

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 230

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 230 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING AN AUDIT OF THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Office of the Auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 125, AFL-CIO, the Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Mental Health America of Hawaii, and four individuals.  Testimony providing comments on this measure was submitted by the Department of Health.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that as the fiscal crisis continues more and more drastic cuts have been made to Adult Mental Health Division funding.  Your Committee further finds that an audit at this time will provide the Department of Health and the Legislature with a comprehensive picture of the Adult Mental Health Division's fiscal situation and the effects the funding cuts have had to date on its fiscal health. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 230, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 230, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair