STAND. COM. REP. 2528

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3068

S.D. 2

 

 

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. 3068, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate unspecified amounts, including grants-in-aid, for health and human services to be expended by the Departments of Health and Human Services.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Retaining section 1 containing language justifying making appropriations from the emergency budget and reserve fund;

(2) Deleting the remainder of the bill;

(3) Restoring all the appropriations made in the original draft of S.B. No. 3068, except where an appropriation duplicates the additional appropriations inserted under paragraph (4) below and except that the appropriation for the operations and programs of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health and Hospital Board, Inc., is changed from $750,000 to $100,000; and

(4) Inserting the substance of the following measures, provided that all the appropriations are made from the emergency budget and reserve fund:

(A) S.B. No. 2158 (2004), appropriating $200,000 as a purchase of service under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to enable the Department of Health to operate a hospital-based poison center twenty-four hours a day;

(B) S.B. No. 2328 (2004), appropriating $50,000 as a subsidy pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for dental services at Kauai community health center;

(C) S.B. No. 2465, S.D.1 (2004), appropriating:

(i) $500,000 pursuant to Department of Education funding in Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, for mental/behavioral health services for Hana high and elementary school;

(ii) $          as a subsidy, pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the Hana Community Health Center for operational expenses; and

(iii) $500,000 as a grant-in-aid, pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS, to the Hana Community Health Center for a capital improvement project for a nutrition training center;

(D) S.B. No. 2471, S.D. 1 (2004), appropriating $130,000 as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to Molokai General Hospital for Lamalama Ka 'Ili Community Health Services programs and general operating costs;

(E) S.B. No. 2473 (2004), appropriating $1,000,000 as a subsidy pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the operating costs of Molokai General Hospital;

(F) S.B. No. 2582 (2004), appropriating $30,765 as a subsidy pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the donated dental services program in Hawaii;

(G) S.B. No. 2604 (2004), appropriating $900,000 (where the original appropriation was $1,006,981) as a subsidy pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center; and

(H) S.B. No. 2683, S.D. 1 (2004), appropriating an unspecified $         amount as a subsidy pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for Kauai Community Health Center.

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. 3068, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3068, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair