STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2762

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3146

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 S.B. No. 3146, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure the public health and safety of the residents of rural Oahu.

Specifically, this bill appropriates $600,000 as a grant-in-aid to the Department of Health to contract for intra-island only roto-wing aeromedical services for rural Oahu; provided that the City and County of Honolulu matches the appropriated funds.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Correcting the reference to "grant-in-aid" pursuant to "chapter 42F," Hawaii Revised Statutes (on page 2, line 13) to "purchase of services" pursuant to "chapter 103F", Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(2) Clarifying the language requiring matching funds from the City and County of Honolulu (page 3, line 7);

(3) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

(4) Inserting the contents of S.B. No. 2404, S.D. 1, that appropriates an unspecified amount as a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii for dedicated emergency medical service personnel to staff the aeromedical helicopter unit on the island of Hawaii; provided that the appropriated amount is matched by the County of Hawaii;

(5) Renumbering the sections of the bill accordingly; and

(6) Making other technical nonsubstantive changes.

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 S.B. No. 3146, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3146, 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