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FRIDAY, JUNE 4,1999

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eluding health care costs for women justice, including incarceration and and the viability of high speed rail revamping the criminal code that in Indiana, to commissions and applies to youth. “The current code committees that already exist by is 24 years old,” Carton said. “We statute. have a different type of juvenile The studies often result in legis- offender we’redealing with today.” lation being drafted, and because The committees have until Oct. 31 the interim study committees have to complete their studies and issue an equal number of Democrats and recommendations to the LegislaRepublicans, those bills often stand tive Council,

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vides a more neutral environment and additional time to consider some issues and make those rec-' ommendations,” Carton said. One newly created study committee will deal only solely with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Last session, lawmakers never could agree on what to do with the agency, which has ran up $43 million in deficit spending over the past several years to operate its 164 branches. The BMV presented a plan in January toclose 49 branches in an effort to cut costs, but many lawmakers balked because the offices were in their home districts. “We need to find a way to make them operational, but those branches are important to small towns,” Gregg said. Two new committees will explore different areas of juvenile AIDS Continued from A1 and activists gathered in Washington seeking practical advice on fighting HIV and AIDS in communities often wracked by poverty and drugs, and where a legacy of racism has left distrust of the medical system. Caine, who has treated many Blacks with AIDS and helped the National Institutes of Health develop recommendations on treatments, said there are several reasons for the problem. Minorities are much more likely not to seek testing and treatment services, she said. And health behaviors in minority communities are frequently rel^dto|l^kofi^bire|tiomnd acc^sroleTuiraTanycTjmpeHnP services. faiflfi sqid mm-f, support is Cheeded for strept-level substance 4buse programs to reduce risk behaviors, and testing services need So increased. And housing and child 'Care assistance is lacking for minorities stricken by the disease, she

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< Caine once treated a young Another with five children who had •nobody else to look after her chil»dren. “What does she do? She has ifo sign out (of the hospital) against ^(nedical advice,” Caine said. ^ Lori Phillips, director of the •Department of Health’s Division ;bf HIV and Sexually Transmitted (Diseases, said the state helps fund £4 AIDS programs in nine counities, some of them specially tar/geted at minorities. But she said •|>er agency is developing a new -Strategy to reduce health disparif ties in minority communities.

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