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 S.B. No. 3152 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hana Community Health Center to allow it to continue its current level of operations and further develop its capacity to meet the on going needs of this isolated community.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hana Community Health Center and nine individuals.

Your Committee finds that the mission of the Hana Health Community Center to improve the health and wellness of the district of Hana is especially beneficial to the residents who are underserved due to financial, cultural, or geographic barriers. Your Committee further finds that funding for the Center will enable it to continue improving the social and economic conditions of the fragile community.

Your Committee has amended this measure by omitting the provisions for equipment and commercial kitchen equipment, thus reducing the amount appropriated to $1,052,780.

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 S.B. No. 3152, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3152, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.