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Memo from State
Mental Health and Some Other Health Bills
Elections & Campaign Regulations
Ethics Bills
Action - Get Out Your Pen and Send a Postcard
Testimony: Various Proposed Bills on Campaign Financing (Alice Scott)
Testimony: Ethics/Standards of Conduct Bills (Alice Scott)
Testimony: Senate Committee on Public Employment (Alice Scott)
Environment
Testimony: Public Health, Youth and Welfare (Gretel McLane)
Current Trends in Education: The Voucher System...
Study of Educational Complex Proto-Types
Testimony: House Education Committee (Helen Tamashiro)

Mental Health and Some Other Health Bills

SB #21 Making An Appropriation for a Stronger More Comprehensive Statewide Drug Abuse Program. --- (DOE/DOH responsibility for compulsory courses for intermediate and high school youth. No amount specified.

SB #125 REQUIRES PROTECTION BY A GROUP MEDICAL CARE PREPAYMENT PLAN OF ALL REGULAR EMPLOYEES UNDER 65 IN PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT. Costs of coverage to be shared by employer and employee. Provides for premium supplementation by the State "to avoid an oppressive burden on low-wage earners and their employers." Introduced by Yoshinaga

SB #49 Appropriation for the Expansion of Neighborhood Health Clinics. To increase services and facilities. 90 amount specified,

SB #50 APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM. No amount specified.

SB #135 ELIMINATES THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BE A PHYSICIAN WITH TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH. Statute as amended would specify no qualifications at all. Introduced by McClung. Supported by Mental Health Association of Hawaii and the Hawaii Nurses Assoc. Opposed by the Hawaii Medical Assoc; Hawaii Public Health Assoc; and Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Assoc,

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION will be setting up task forces for information gathering on the island of Oahu. Volunteers who are interested in Mental Health and in expanding services in the community are asked to join these task forces. There will probably be a meeting once a month. Call Ruth C. Snyder if interested. 373-6178 or LWV office 531-7448.

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