STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2816

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2531
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2531, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency
appropriation for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the HHSC, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, HGEA-AFSCME, and a
private individual.

     Your Committee finds that this emergency appropriation
request is necessary to ensure that the HHSC can repay the State
for moneys advanced to pay retroactive and current fiscal year
collective bargaining increase payments to state employees
working for the HHSC.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify the
purpose of the appropriation.

     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. 2531, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.

 
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No. 2531, 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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