Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2098 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize general obligation bonds for the design and construction of the Kulamalu Long-Term Care Facility in Kula, Maui.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from five members of the Maui County Council, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, the Kula Community Association, and the Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc.

Your Committee finds that Maui County is currently facing a tremendous shortage of cost-effective options for seniors who require long-term care. Your Committee also finds that the construction of 110 long-term care beds will help seniors who are currently wait-listed at the Maui Memorial Medical Center to relocate to a facility where they can receive the appropriate level of care.

Your Committee has amended this measure to reflect the appropriate number of beds to be constructed from one hundred two to one hundred ten.

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 S.B. No. 2098, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2098, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.