Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2904, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds for a second ambulance to service the Waianae Coast.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Honolulu Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu and Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. The Department of Health supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting a $1 appropriation to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2904, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2904, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.