STAND. COM. REP. NO. 619
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 1053
H.D. 1
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 Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1053 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to establish a statewide program to enable federally qualified community health centers (FQHC) to obtain capital funding for adequate facilities, information systems, and safe and appropriate patient care.
The Hawaii Primary Care Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Hana Community Health Center supported this measure. The Department of Health (DOH) did not support this measure.
Your Committees find that there is no mechanism or protocol for funding the capital improvements and infrastructure of FQHC in Hawaii, and that community health centers receive public and private funds for capital improvements that is piecemeal and arbitrary.
As such, your Committees have amended this bill to:
(1) Reflect oversight by the Hawaii State Health Planning
and Development Agency (SHPDA) for the coordination, planning, and distribution of capital funding for Hawaii's FQHC facilities, as it is the purpose of SHPDA to promote accessibility for all the people of the state to quality health care at reasonable cost;
(2) To change the amount appropriated to $1 per
fiscal year, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion; and
(3) To request that the DOH actively seek out additional
private and federal resources to fund FQHC capital improvements.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1053, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1053, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
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____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair |
____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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