STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1191
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 684
H.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 684, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE CONTRACTS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COSTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of additional general funds for fiscal year 2004-2005 to pay for ambulance service contract collective bargaining costs.
The Department of Health, a member of the Maui County Council, American Medical Response, the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, and two individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.
Your Committees find that this emergency appropriation is necessary for the Department of Health to comply with collective bargaining increases negotiated by ambulance service providers statewide. The State provides emergency ambulance services through contractual arrangement with the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii County, and a private provider, American Medical Response, for the counties of Maui and Kauai. This measure assures that continued emergency ambulance services are available at the current level of service throughout communities statewide.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 684, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Labor,
____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Chair |
____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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