STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1520

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1663
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1663, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Health to conduct soil testing at Village Park and
West Loch Fairways, Oahu to determine if contaminated soil is a
cause of the illnesses, and the physical and learning
disabilities of children and families living in these areas.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting the substance of:

          (A)  Senate Bill No. 1032, S.D. 1, which requires the
               Director of Health to establish an administrative
               process for permitting the involuntary medication
               of psychiatric patients institutionalized at in-
               patient psychiatric facilities or the Hawaii state
               hospital, under the authority of an
               interdisciplinary clinical review panel, in order
               to alleviate mental illness and restore
               competency; and


 
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          (B)  Senate Bill No. 511, S.D. 1, which requires
               insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health
               maintenance organizations to pay an indemnity or
               reimbursement directly to the rural health care
               facility that provided services, regardless of the
               facility's participatory status with the
               insurer's, mutual benefit society's, or health
               maintenance organization's plan; and

     (2)  Changing the sum appropriated for soil testing at
          Village Park and West Loch Fairways from $1 to $2; and

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of
          clarity, consistency, 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 H.B. No.
1663, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1663,
H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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