STAND. COM. REP. NO. 360
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 684
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 684 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 bill is to appropriate emergency funds for fiscal year 2004-2005 to pay the collective bargaining costs of first responder ambulance service providers.
The Department of Health (DOH) supported this measure.
DOH reported that this bill is needed to cover the department's funding shortfall to pay for the increases negotiated through collective bargaining. The departmental shortcoming could result in the interruption of emergency services statewide.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 684 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment,
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____________________________ KIRK CALDWELL, Chair |
____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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