Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 910 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of general obligation (GO) bonds for the Kulamalu Long-Term Care Facility in Kula, Maui.

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that long-term care beds are in critically short supply throughout Hawaii. The issuance of GO bonds will allow a private-public consortium to build a new long-term care facility that will add 102 new long-term care beds to Kula and help ease the burden on Maui's overtaxed long-term care system.

Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to contact the Department of Budget and Finance to obtain information on the debt service pertaining to this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 910 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.