CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. -0 179-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 2961
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this bill is to discourage smoking by increasing the tax on cigarettes and to provide funds for the John A. Burns School of Medicine, emergency medical services, trauma care, and community health centers.
This bill increased the tax per cigarette a blank amount over three years and allocated blank percentages of the increased revenues to fund the John A. Burns School of Medicine, community health centers, the emergency medical services special fund, and, if adopted in the Regular Session of 2006, the trauma system special fund.
Your Committee on Conference amended this bill by:
(1) Establishing the Hawaii cancer research special fund and the community health centers special fund;
(2) Exempting the Hawaii cancer research special fund, the community health centers special fund, and the emergency medical services special fund from central service expenses and from administrative expenses;
(3) Inserting the tax amount per cigarette to increase 1.00 cent per year over six years;
(4) Inserting the amounts in cents to be allocated to each recipient over six years;
(5) Designating the Hawaii cancer research special fund, the community health centers special fund, the emergency medical services special fund, and the trauma system special fund as the recipients of the revenues; and
(6) Appropriating $11,000,000 out of the Hawaii cancer research special fund for research and operating expenses of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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____________________________ MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Co-Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |
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