STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3090
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2153
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to provide outpatient, urgent, and extended medical care services after normal physician hours in West Maui.
The Department of Health, West Maui Health Alliance, The Friends of Maui County Health, Maui Land & Pineapple Company Inc., and two individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.
Your Committee finds that outpatient, urgent, and extended medical care services are needed in West Maui. An appropriation of $1,000,000 was previously made to Hawaii Health Systems Corporation for Maui Memorial Medical Center to develop a plan to provide urgent and extended care services in West Maui. Those funds were released and planning has commenced. All efforts related to the provision of urgent and extended care services in West Maui must be coordinated. This measure will provide funds to complement the existing effort and to initiate the implementation of the plan for after hours urgent and extended care services in West Maui.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adding clarifying language to the legislative findings section;
(2) Designating that the funds are for Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to contract with a private health care provider or a non-profit health care provider pursuant to chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to:
(A) Provide outpatient, urgent, and extended medical care services after 8:00 p.m., in West Maui. Proposals shall demonstrate long-term sustainability or a means to reduce non-emergency emergency dispatch calls to Maui memorial medical center and a commitment to accept all patients; and
(B) Fund expenses related to the delivery of direct services, including staff salaries for medical and administrative personnel, and operating expenses; provided that funds shall not be used for equipment; and
(3) By making technical, non-substantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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