Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2721, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for additional ambulance service in the Waianae-Nanakuli, Kahaluu-Kaaawa, and urban Honolulu areas of Oahu, and a third shift of ambulance service at the Makakilo ambulance unit.

Your Committee finds that the Waianae-Nanakuli, Kahaluu-Kaaawa, and urban Honolulu areas lack sufficient emergency medical services, particularly with recent population growth and higher incidence of medical emergencies in those areas.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount of $1,251,070 to an unspecified amount to promote further discussion on the measure.

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 S.B. No. 2721, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2721, S.D. 2.