Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of general funds to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to fund the corporation's share of contributions to the Employees' Retirement System and the Public Employees Health Fund.

Your Committee finds that emergency funding is necessary to offset unplanned, unanticipated, and unbudgeted increases in benefit payments to the Employees' Retirement System and the Public Employees Health Fund on behalf of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation employees in fiscal year 2002-2003.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2003.

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. 1181, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.