STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3532
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2153
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to provide outpatient, urgent, and extended medical care services to residents of West Maui, who do not have access to these services after normal physician hours.
Your Committee finds that West Maui residents must travel over twenty-five miles to the nearest hospital, the Maui Memorial Medical Center, to receive treatment in an emergency room. Your Committee further finds that a private or nonprofit health care provider located in West Maui could save the lives of many residents and help reduce the number of non-emergency dispatch cases being handled by Maui Memorial Medical Center that are not truly emergencies.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting provisions contained in Senate Bill No. 2343, H.D. 1, to provide that health care workers and contracted health care providers are subject to criminal history record checks;
(2) Inserting an unspecified appropriation amount;
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and
(4) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of style and clarity.
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 H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2153, H.D. 2, 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 |
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