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. 2187, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for intra-island roto-wing emergency aeromedical services for rural Oahu.

Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for the Director of Health to contract with existing government agencies or federal military units to provide those services.

Your Committee finds that there is an imminent need to provide helicopter medical transport for rural communities on Oahu to replace the services that will soon cease to be provided by the United States Army's 68th Medical Company's Medical Assistance to Safety and Traffic helicopters.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2187, 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. 2187, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.