STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1110

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1621
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1621, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL
     PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT
     PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of
special purpose revenue bonds for not-for-profit corporations
that provide health care facilities.

     Your Committee finds that it is in the public interest to
encourage the development of health care in the State.  Your
Committee further finds that Pacific Community Health & Wellness,
Inc., a not-for-profit Hawaii corporation, is engaged in the
development of health care facility in the Koa Ridge area of
central Oahu, and thereby serves the public.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting references in the purpose section to the Koa
          Ridge area of central Oahu and to a portion of a three
          hundred ten acre parcel;

     (2)  Increasing the appropriated amount from $1,000,000 to
          $5,000,000; and


 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1621, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 1621, H.D. 1, 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 and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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