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. 2578 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for construction improvements and expansion for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.

Your Committee finds that this hospital is the only rehabilitation hospital in Hawaii. It needs to expand its outpatient clinic, inpatient beds, construct a new parking garage, and upgrade physicians' and administrative spaces. Your Committee also finds that these improvements are primarily in response to changes in Medicare policy.

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. 2578 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.