STAND. COM. REP. NO. 436

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1197
                                        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 S.B. No. 1197 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE
     COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, WCCHC, Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
Aloha Care, and two private citizens.

     Your Committee finds that the WCCHC may close its emergency
room unless it receives funds appropriated by this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure on the request of
the WCCHC to change the amount appropriated from $266,446, to
$855,433, for each of the next two fiscal years.

     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 S.B. No. 1197, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1197,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   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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